Using LLMs properly requires LLM-fu.

· Bits and Bobs 3/25/24

Just like Google-fu back in the day.

The kinds of people who had developed an intuition on how to formulate their query (sometimes in non-obvious ways!) to get great results.

In the early days of Google, some people literally got paid for this skill!

The people who find LLMs most useful today are meta-experts: generalists.

People who play "out of position" a lot.

Asking a domain expert if an LLM gives a useful answer in their domain of expertise is the wrong question.

The question is: for the generalist, does it give them more calibrated confidence in an unfamiliar domain more quickly than they would have otherwise?

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