Comment by stray
4 days ago
I have a couple projects that have completely stalled because none of the frontier models could advance any further with them - I'm going to give fable a try at them this coming weekend.
I believe the "you are an expert software engineer" thing puts them into a "mindset" of cosplaying a software engineer - whereas I get astounding results by talking to them in the information-dense, jargon-heavy mode I use with my peers. I can't prove it but I believe that places my session in a better place in latent space.
ymmv
Yes, words matter.
My favourite example is that if you use "timestamp" when using an LLM to process video you get worse results than if you'd use "timecode".
AV professionals always say "timecode" - timestamp is a programming term.
Using the right word pushes the model closer to the correct spot in the cloud of vectors that is it's "brain".