Comment by Aurornis

> the meta-skill of learning to use the LLM depreciates too. Today's LLM is gonna go away someday, the way you have to use it will change. You will be on a forever treadmill, always learning the vagaries of using the new shiny model (and paying for the privilege!)

I haven’t found this to be true at all, at least so far.

As models improve I find that I can start dropping old tricks and techniques that were necessary to keep old models in line. Prompts get shorter with each new model improvement.

It’s not really a cycle where you’re re-learning all the time or the information becomes outdated. The same prompt structure techniques are usually portable across LLMs.