Worth Reading: LLM Prompts for Network Engineers
Tony Mattke put together a long list of recommendations that might help you get more out of your LLM tokens.
Definitely worth reading instead of yelling at the stupid AI.
Tony Mattke put together a long list of recommendations that might help you get more out of your LLM tokens.
Definitely worth reading instead of yelling at the stupid AI.
My problem with LLMs and articles like this is the incessant anthropomorphizing and assigning of intelligence where there is none - it reasons, it can/can't, etc. Sure, your use of LLMs might help you solve some issues quicker or whatever, but it's like working with radiation - you will get damaged over time, unless you are vigilant 24/7 for the rest of your life, which I'm unsure I want to expend the effort for. You outsource your thinking one time, then it gets easier and easier each subsequent use - boom, you get "irradiated" - how will I do my job when Claude is down (it will go down, we know this) or the bill from "LLM provider du jour" is over our yearly budget, etc Not to mention the bigger, longterm effects of "I'm ashamed to ask a fellow human, let's ask an LLM instead" - the imposter syndrome will absolutely ravage the growth of juniors. At least you can use enthusiasm about LLMs as a self-disqualifying indicator of who wants to use their brain and who will let it degrade. People had the same expectations about previous iterations of [insert tech here] - it will solve problems, don't be left behind, etc. And we got entshittification, rampant disinfo, social "media" and the other well known harms.
Thank you! Can't disagree with any of that ;))