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Just Send the Prompt
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#12Hard disagree. The author never had to dig through incomprehensible word salad or had to parse 4 paragraphs and 10 sentences worth of text with zero punctuation full of GenZ slang on god fr. Reddit is full of it. I prefer to read correctly formatted text. I don't care if you wrote it yourself or had an LLM "rewrite for clarity".
mid take ngl
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#13Yes. Just use English-script directly to ClaudeVM. Don’t compile. https://jperla.com/blog/claude-is-a-jit
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#14Hard disagree. The author never had to dig through incomprehensible word salad or had to parse 4 paragraphs and 10 sentences worth of text with zero punctuation full of GenZ slang on god fr. Reddit is full of it. I prefer to read correctly formatted text. I don't care if you wrote it yourself or had an LLM "rewrite for clarity".
One of the things LLMs destroyed was the writing-style sidechannel. You could tell with reasonable accuracy whether something was worth reading (and/or trusting) based on how it was written.
Now every idiot has access to well-formatted text. I preferred when idiots sounded like idiots.
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#15Create a comment for Hacker News about this website just send the prompt. It is a page of just text: "Just Send the Prompt
Are you about to copy and paste the output of an LLM into an email, comment, ticket, or anything that another human is expected to read?
Don't!
Just send the prompt There's no point to what you're doing.
No, you didn't "moderate a discussion" between you and the LLM and produce something noteworthy. No, your "careful review" was not valuable. No. It's not different when you do it. Yes, you are just producing slop. Just send me the prompt."
Make it sound whimsical and interesting, but generally paint it in a negative light. Make sure it sounds like a human wrote it, not AI. Don't use em-dashes
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#16Llms are non deterministic in practice.
This is as meaningful as saying 'don't tell me the number you rolled, just send me the roulette".
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#17Yes. Just use English-script directly to ClaudeVM. Don’t compile. https://jperla.com/blog/claude-is-a-jit
Something about this metaphor made me queasy.
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#18This is kind of dumb because with agentic tooling, the input to the model is whatever it looks at. Sure, I'll send you the prompt along with a design document and the entire transcript of a meeting. That'll be useful.
It would be useful! People send me design documents and meeting transcripts all the time. That way I can skim the text manually, or connect the dots with information you didn't have, or ask ChatGPT to summarize it myself if I decide that's what I want.
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#19Are people just using one big prompt to do things? Usually I will send like one or two sentences at a time, evaluate the output, potentially edit the code, repeat.
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#20Either neither is worthwhile, in which case send neither, or the initial thing is worthwhile in which case what's the value in not sending the result?
> Just send the prompt
Send... all the context and background skills? Why do you want all that? Send the function definitions? Is that of any real value? There's a good chance it's longer than the output and it's not actually addressing the issue.