Maybe Chain-of-Thought Isn't the Trick. Maybe Specification Is.
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I want to think through something out loud, and I'd genuinely love to know if this lands for anyone else or if I'm just talking myself into a corner. I've been chasing a hunch lately, the kind that starts as a half-formed idea you can't quite let go of. It's about prompting — specifically, why we talk about prompting the way we do, and whether the techniques everyone swears by are actually doing what we think they're doing. I went looking for an answer and found something that, if it holds up,…
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- I want to think through something out loud, and I'd genuinely love to know if this lands for anyone else or if I'm just talking myself into a corner.
- I've been chasing a hunch lately, the kind that starts as a half-formed idea you can't quite let go of.
- It's about prompting — specifically, why we talk about prompting the way we do, and whether the techniques everyone swears by are actually doing what we think they're doing.
- I went looking for an answer and found something that, if it holds up,….
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Prompt and agent patterns spread fast; staying current saves time and token cost. DEV — Prompt Engineering reports that i want to think through something out loud, and I'd genuinely love to know if this lands for anyone else or if I'm just talking myself into a corner.
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