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I chatted with Eric on my podcast recently. It’s essentially just a special prompting syntax. The thing I found surprising is that it’s quite good at making chatbot like command interfaces. Hallucinations are still a problem but it still does a surprisingly good job of storing state between commands.

https://www.devtools.fm/episode/68 if anyone is interested in the ep

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I watched the interview and think I get what's going on. In essence, he's been exploring prompt engineering since before it was cool, starting back in 2020. He and others have discovered some of the 'rough edges' of LLMs and have figured out a way to sand them down via prompting. Additionally, they've discovered ways to maximize their abilities, e.g., inference.

The demos are impressive. I'm excited to give it a try, as I have a lot of ideas for personal software tools where I'm the only customer, but not enough time or skill to build them myself.

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