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Comment by bingemaker

4 days ago

I still believe in writing good prompts or good instructions. Bad prompts can sometimes blow up the bill. A poorly written spec can waste a lot of tokens

Definitely. But the special knowledge how to talk to a certain model is usually not worth it.

Being able to write clear, always is.

Sure but lets not pretend this is engineering.

  • Then let's not pretend what software engineers have been doing for the last 50 years is engineering, either. But what else would you call it?

    • I agree, which is why I prefer to say software developer rather than engineer.