3 ms·
What I've found is that the quality of an AI answer is inversely proportional to the knowledge of the person reading it. To an amateur it answers expertly, to a
by miningape 2y ago
What I've found is that the quality of an AI answer is inversely proportional to the knowledge of the person reading it. To an amateur it answers expertly, to an expert it answers amateurishly.
So no, it's not a lack of skill in prompting: I've sat down with "prompting" "experts" and universally they overlook glaring issues when assessing the how good an answer it was. When I tell them where to press it further it breaks down with even worse gibberish.
- johnisgood 2y agoI know what I want to do and how to do it (expert), so the results are good, for me at least. Of course I have to polish it off here and there.
- shermantanktop 2y agoYou answered that more graciously than many would.
- johnisgood 2y agoThis is the reason I pay for Claude. If it weren't making me as productive as I am with it, I would not pay for it.
- myaccountonhn 2y agoI try LLMs every now and then briefly just to keep myself up to date. I’d say they’re more useful when you know what you’re doing because then you can correct the mistakes it makes. It can be good for boilerplate, refactors or remembering syntax. It’s when you don’t know what you don’t know that they can be harmful. It’s the issue with Stackoverflow but more pronounced. I don’t want to use LLMs because I think they’re unethical and I dont want to depend on a tool that requires internet, but I think if you take a disciplined approach then they can really speed up development.