Side topic : I didn’t see a serious article about prompt engineering for senior software development pop up on HN. Yet a lot of users here have their own techniques unshared with others
Here's an example: what's the best prompt to use to summarize an article?
That feels like such an obvious thing, and yet I haven't even seen that being well explored.
It's actually a surprisingly deep topic. I like using tricks like "directly quote the sentences that best illustrate the overall themes" and "identify the most surprising ideas", but I'd love to see a thorough breakdown of all the tricks I haven't seen yet.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43897666
Maybe you should ask him. lol
[0] https://softwaremisadventures.com/p/simon-willison-llm-weird...
[1] https://youtu.be/6U_Zk_PZ6Kg?feature=shared&t=56m29 (the exact moment)
[2] https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-...
They're pretty long and extensive, and honestly could use some cleaning up and refactoring at this point, but they are being used heavily in production and work quite well, which took a fairly extreme amount of trial-and-error to achieve.