Comment by euclidinspace

I don't think that a prompt can be a valuable object, similar to how code used to be. Unless Mira Murati is successful at scaling her approach to deterministic inference, a prompt is fragile and transient. And even if she is successful, LLM updates make a prompt much less useful over longer time horizons.

I think that the only useful objects to keep right now are DSPy programs together with well-crafted examples, with examples being the most valuable because they are transferable across models and architectures.

I also noticed several people in the thread comparing coding assistants to junior programmers. I disagree. The only parallel is that they will do what you tell them to. Otherwise, a coding assistant can hold an entire codebase in context, reason across patterns, and generate boilerplate faster than any human. That capability has no human analogue. And unlike a junior, they have no agency, so the comparison breaks down on multiple fronts.