I agree with most of what you’re saying—especially the Unix pipe analogy and the value of building a prompt library while understanding which LLM to use. That

I agree with most of what you’re saying—especially the Unix pipe analogy and the value of building a prompt library while understanding which LLM to use. That said, I think there’s value in a catch-all fallback: running a prompt without all the usual rules or assumptions. Sometimes, a simple prompt on the latest model just works—and often in surprisingly more effective ways than one with a complex prompt.