Note that this was originally published in September 2022, before text-davinci-003 was released November 2022 which lets you do whatever you want without as much effort.
Can you explain more what you mean by “do whatever you want without as much effort”? Is it because text-davinci-003 accepts more tokens for the prompt? Something else?
I was trying to get davinci-003 to convert text to SQL, and it worked with a very simple prompt like "convert this text into SQL". With all their other models, I could get it to work too but all required a few examples within the prompt.