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- Why would I believe that any of this works? This is just some blokes idea of what people should do.
There is no evidence offered. No attempt to measure the benefits.
by sgt101 - Are we still calling this things engineering?by aeve890
- I'd like a RSS feed of this blog..by grigio
- This looks AI generated slop.by alecco
- Are there any open source examples of good context engineering or agent systems?by elteto
- The only thing that passed the test of time,so far is specificity: if you ask for multiple things or vague things, you receive half-baked answers trying to cover all bases. If you ask for specific one thing and describe it, the answer quality goes up;e.g. LLMs creating multi-part content mix up the parts and qualities of them, so e.g. asking for Part 1*specific, will always get a better answer than "list all parts of X"(quality drops with length of list).by 8474_s
- There is nothing precise about crafting prompts and context—it's just that, a craft. Even if you do the right thing and check some fuzzy boundary conditions using autoscorers, the model can still change out from beneath you at any point and totally alter the behavior of your system. There is no formal language here. After all, mathematics exists because natural language is notoriously imprecise.
The article has some good practical tips and it's not on the author but man I really wish we'd stop abusing the term "engineering" in a desperate attempt to stroke our own egos and or convince people to give us money. It's pathetic. Coming up with good inputs to LLMs is more art than science and it's a craft. Call a spade a spade.
by voidhorse