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If you are getting garbage out, you are asking it for too much at once. Don't ask for solutions - ask for implementations.
by WalterSear 11mo ago
If you are getting garbage out, you are asking it for too much at once. Don't ask for solutions - ask for implementations.
- hatefulmoron 11mo agoDistinction without a difference. I'm talking about its output being insufficient, whatever word you want to use for output.
- WalterSear 11mo agoAnd I'm arguing that if the output wasn't sufficient, neither was your input. You could also be asking for too much in one go, though that's becoming less and less of a problem as LLMs improve.
- hatefulmoron 11mo agoYou're proposing a truism: if you don't get a good result, it's either because your query is bad or because the LLM isn't good enough to provide a good result. Yes, that is how this works. I'm talking about the case where you're providing a good query and getting poor results. Claiming that this can be solved by more LLM conversations and ultrathink is cope.
- WalterSear 11mo agoI've claimed neither. I actually prefer restarting or rolling back quickly rather than trying to re-work suboptimal outputs - less chance of being rabbit holed. Just add what I've learned to the original ticket/prompt. 'Git gud' isn't much of a truism.