A good tip via Simon Willison: use the weaker models when iterating on prompts.

· Bits and Bobs 4/15/24

If you can get something to work in last-gen models (e.g. GPT 3.5 Turbo, or Claude Haiku) then it will definitely work / work better in newer models.

But if you do it the reverse, you might find that it's only viable in the expensive model.

The n-1 model will always be significantly cheaper than the frontier models.

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