Comment by energy123

I'm on the optimistic side with how useful LLMs are, but I have to agree. You cultivate the instinct for how to steer the models and reduce hallucinations, but you're not building articulable knowledge or engaging in challenging thinking. It's more learning muscle-memory reactions to certain forms of LLM output that lean you towards trusting the output more, trying another prompting strategy, clearing context or not, and so on.

To the extent we can call it skill, it's probably going to be made redundant in a few years as the models get better. It gives me a kind of listlessness that assembly line workers would feel.