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It must have something to do with the way your wife is prompting. I've noticed this with my friends too. I usually get working code from Gemini 2.5 Pro on the f
by SweetSoftPillow 2y ago
It must have something to do with the way your wife is prompting. I've noticed this with my friends too. I usually get working code from Gemini 2.5 Pro on the first try, and with a couple of follow-up prompts, it often improves significantly, while my friends seem to struggle communicating their ideas to the AI and get worse results.
Good news: Prompting is a skill you can develop.
- halfmatthalfcat 2y agoOr we can just learn to write it ourselves in the same amount of time /shrug
- viraptor 2y agoIf you're going to need scripts like that every week - sure. If you need it once a year on average... not likely. There's a huge amount of things we could learn but do them so infrequently that we outsource it to other people.
- rgoulter 1y agoRight. This is one case where I've found writing code with LLMs to be effective. With some unfamiliar tool I don't care about too much (e.g. GitHub Actions YAML or some build script), I just want it to work, & then focus on other things. I can spend time to try and come up with something that works; something that's robust & idiomatic.. but, likely I won't be able to re-use that knowledge before I forget it. With an LLM, I'll likely get just as good a result; or if not, will have a good starting point to go from.
- SweetSoftPillow 1y agoYou can't.
- halfmatthalfcat 1y agoNot with that attitude.
- gregorygoc 2y agoIs there a website with off the shelf prompts that work?