It absolutely can be. Prompt construction, as well as learning what sort of things the LLM just isn't good at doing, takes work. I've had multiple times where I

It absolutely can be. Prompt construction, as well as learning what sort of things the LLM just isn't good at doing, takes work. I've had multiple times where I've asked for something, gotten complete trash back from the LLM, complained to a friend who's more into LLMs about it, and had them go "Oh, you just have to add this extra set of words at the end/phrase it this other way and it'll work." Or they'll give me some massive multi-paragraph "seed" prompt I need to add in to make it not behave stupidly sometimes, that they evidently have to update every few days or weeks to adapt to some new behavior. Until Google decided to trash their search with their own sub-par LLM, my results were often regularly better just hitting the first link on Google Search like I had for the last decade.