LLMs reward expertise

LLMs reward expertise

LLMs turn everyone into a generalist, but the real skill is domain expertise. Terence Tao's conversation with ChatGPT shows how deep knowledge lets you steer the model, push back, and extract far more value. The human, not the model, is the bottleneck.

The most important skill in prompting is expertise in the domain you’re prompting for.

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