LLM workflows
I’ve been waiting to write about LLMs because I’ve had very little to say about LLM’s that isn’t been obvious. All prompt engineering advice I’ve had and came across online distilled down to:
prompt better like you would to a human.
Tell the LLM to be good at it’s job (fun quirk of LLMs is that it does the average of what it’s seen, so careful prompting can deal with slop)
and I don’t need to tell you that. Most of my usage has been the obvious usage, and since I had nothing novel so say, I said nothing. However, lately I’ve started to come across some non-obvious ways to use LLMs.
Surgeon style programming
We can reorganize ourselves as a head surgeon from the surgical team in The Mythical Man Month. The book, from 50 years ago discusses that every surgical team needs a human language lawyer, human toolsmith, etc. but getting people to agree to that was hard…