The Experimenter mindset: curious and willing to try out options to see what works.

Hold lightly to your current understanding, and try many safe-to-fail experiments.

A playful, open, curious mindset.

This mindset is useful when the downside is capped and the upside is uncapped.

In those cases, you should keep spinning the roulette wheel, to find as many great combinations as possible.

If you have misjudged and the downside is not capped, or could bankrupt you, then an experimenter mindset could be dangerous.

But in most cases, an experimenter mindset is useful.

The upside for figuring out how to use LLMs is higher and the downside is lower, so the experimentation mindset is even more valuable than it once was.