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Interesting. I found most of what was described in this video fairly obvious. The prompt length one was useful non-obvious insight, but the rest of it I thin
by cwkoss 4y ago
Interesting. I found most of what was described in this video fairly obvious. The prompt length one was useful non-obvious insight, but the rest of it I think is pretty easy to figure out on your own if you play with ChatGPT for a few evenings. But could certainly see it being useful to chatGPT novices.
I don't doubt that there is value is sharing useful workflows to learn how to write prompts or useful things to add to prompts, but I've seen a lot of people selling a 'list of tuned prompts' as if each was a plug-and-play deployable software stack. I think anyone who tried to actually productize these prompts would find the need to tweak the prompts so much they might as well have started from scratch.
In short, I think there is value in teaching people how to write prompts to custom-fit their needs, but the idea of general purpose couple-paragraph superprompts that mere knowledge of is worth tens of dollars seems fallacious to me.
Disclosure: I've never bought any of these, maybe they are that good. I'm very skeptical though.
- saurik 4y agoI just don't think that most people--maybe you ;P--would say the same thing about a book about how to brainstorm with a team better, as that's all you're doing when you are talking to an AI... and yet people buy those books all the time and I certainly read a few of them in my early 20s. Was it a great, earth-shattering video? No. But seeing someone quickly get concrete value from something is still of a lot of practical value for seeing how it strings together.