Google-fu is a temporary phenomenon.

When Google was a new thing, people could have "Google-Fu" who had developed a calibrated intuition for how to extract better answers from it.

But as Google matured, a clear gradient of improvement is to make it so less-and-less savvy users get results closer and closer to what users with Google-fu can get.

The main way to do that is to automate the intuition^[ajx][ajy] that the savvy users are applying; which now means everyone gets it, and the edge evaporates.

Prompt-fu is the equivalent for getting much better results from LLMs.

That implies that people with prompt-fu will get less and less differentiated results as the systems we all use get more mature.

But presumably there will always be some difference, because a search is just a filtering operation, whereas LLMs are co-creative, so the "Fu" is orders of magnitude more important than it was for search queries.^[ajz]