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Dmitrii Dimandt

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I've been using LLMs mostly for side projects for over two years. These range from rather complex (logic-wise) "multiple-screen, multiplayer, multi-device, score-driven, timer-synced, multiple-media displayed, real-time controlled" pub quizzes to simple "list videos from my home plex server, and run them with mpv".

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Prompting LLMs is not engineering

prompt engineering is nothing but an attempt to reverse-engineer a non-deterministic black box for which any of the parameters below are unknown: - training set - weights - constraints on the model - layers between you and the model that transform both your input and the model's output that can change at any time …