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My mental model for them is plinko boards. Your prompt changes the spacing between the nails to increase the probability in certain directions as your chip falls down.

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i literally suggested this metaphor earlier yesterday to someone trying to get agents to do stuff they wanted, that they had to set up their guardrails in a way that you can let the agents do what they're good at, and you'll get better results because you're not sitting there looking at them.

i think probably once you start seeing that the behavior falls right out of the geometry, you just start looking at stuff like that. still funny though.

Probably better could have described it as the distance between the pegs being the model weight, and the prompt defines the shape of the coin you’re dropping down.

I was half asleep when I wrote it the first time and knew it wasn’t what I wanted to say but couldn’t remember what analogy I was looking for.

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