Comment by skerit

It's kind of funny how not a lot of people realize this.

On one hand this is a feature: you're able to "multishot prompt" an LLM into providing the wanted response. Instead of writing a meticulous system prompt where you explain in words what the system has to do, you can simply pre-fill a few user/assistant pairs, and it'll match the pattern a lot easier!

I always thought Gemini Pro was very good at this. When I wanted a model to "do by example", I mostly used Gemini Pro.

And that is ALSO Gemini's weakness! Because as soon as something goes wrong in Gemini-CLI, it'll repeat the same mistake over and over again.