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This is really just a meme. People don't know how to use these tools. Here is the response from Gpt-5.2 using my default custom instructions in the mac desktop
by vardalab 8mo ago
This is really just a meme. People don't know how to use these tools.
Here is the response from Gpt-5.2 using my default custom instructions in the mac desktop app.
OBJECTIVE: Decide whether to drive or walk to a car wash ~50 meters from home, given typical constraints (car must be present for wash).
APPROACH: Use common car-wash workflows + short-distance driving considerations (warm engine, time, parking/queue). No web sources needed (stable, local decision).
OUTPUT:
• Default choice: Drive.
A car wash generally requires the car on-site, and 50 meters of driving is trivial.
• When walking makes sense:
• You’re going to drop the car off (hand-wash/detail) and pick it up later.
• You want to avoid moving the car now (ice, tight parking, you’ve been drinking, etc.) and someone else will handle the car.
• Micro-guidance:
• If it’s an automatic wash you stay in, drive.
• If it’s detail/hand wash with a wait, drive there, then walk home (or just wait).
CONFIDENCE: 92/100
Assumptions: It’s a normal car wash that requires your car to be there; conditions are safe to drive 50 meters.
- sph 8mo ago"You're holding it wrong."
- reliabilityguy 8mo agoYour objective has explicit instruction that car has to be present for a wash. Quite a difference from the original phrasing where the model has to figure it out.
- bwat49 8mo ago> Your objective has explicit instruction that car has to be present for a wash. Which is exactly how you're supposed to prompt an LLM, is the fact that giving a vague prompt gives poor results really suprising?
- reliabilityguy 8mo agoIn this case, with such a simple task, why even bother to prompt it? The whole idea of this question is to show that pretty often implicit assumptions are not discovered by the LLM.
- J_cst 8mo agoThat's the answer of his LLM which has decomposed the question and built the answer following the op prompt obviously. I think you didn't get it.
- reliabilityguy 8mo ago> I think you didn't get it. I did get it, and in my view my point still stands. If I need to use special prompts to ask such a simple question, then what are we doing here? The LLMs should be able to figure out a simple contradiction in the question the same way we (humans) do.
- vardalab 8mo agoNot really a special prompt. It's basically my custom instruction to ChatGPT, the purpose of that instruction is to disambiguate my ramblings, basically. It's pretty effective. I always use speech to text, so it's messy and this cleanup really helps.
- pegasus 8mo agoInteresting, what were the instructions if you don't mind sharing?
- deleted 8mo ago[deleted]
- chillfox 8mo agoNone of that stuff is necessary, they all get it right with the initial question and no further prompt if you dial the reasoning effort up.
- nananana9 8mo ago> given typical constraints (car must be present for wash). "It's very good at thinking if you do the thinking for it"