[sbierwagen]

>This Monday, I moderated a panel in San Francisco with engineers and ML leads from Uber, WisdomAI, EvenUp, and Datastrato. The event, Beyond the Prompt, drew 600+ registrants, mostly founders, engineers, and early AI product builders.

>We weren’t there to rehash prompt engineering tips.

>We talked about context engineering, inference stack design, and what it takes to scale agentic systems inside enterprise environments. If “prompting” is the tip of the iceberg, this panel dove into the cold, complex mass underneath: context selection, semantic layers, memory orchestration, governance, and multi-model routing.

I bet those four people love that the moderator took a couple notes and then asked ChatGPT to write a blog post.

As always, the number one tell of LLM output, besides the tone, is that by default it will never include links in the body of the post.

[stingraycharles]

Yeah, “here’s the reality check:”, “not because they’re flashy, but because they’re blah blah”.

Why can’t anyone be bothered anymore to write actual content, especially when writing about AI, where your whole audience is probably already exposed to these patterns in content day in, day out?

It comes off as so cheap.

[mccoyb]

It comes off as someone who lives their life according to quantity, not quality.

The real insight: have some fucking pride in what you make, be it a blog post, or a piece of software.

[alexchantavy]

Yeah it bugs me. We've got enough examples in this article to make Cards Against Humanity ChatGPT edition

> One panelist shared a personal story that crystallized the challenge: his wife refuses to let him use Tesla’s autopilot. Why? Not because it doesn’t work, but because she doesn’t trust it.

> Trust isn’t about raw capability, it’s about consistent, explainable, auditable behavior.

> One panelist described asking ChatGPT for family movie recommendations, only to have it respond with suggestions tailored to his children by name, Claire and Brandon. His reaction? “I don’t like this answer. Why do you know my son and my girl so much? Don’t touch my privacy.”

[rapind]

> Why can’t anyone be bothered anymore to write actual content

The way I see it is that the majority of people never bothered to write actual content. Now there’s a tool the non-writers can use to write dubious content.

I would wager this tool is being used much differently by actual writers focused on producing quality. There’s just way less of them, same way there is less of any specialization.

The real question with AI to me is whether it will remain consistently better when wielded by a specialist who has invested their time into whatever the thing is they are producing. If that ever changes then we are doomed. When it’s no longer slop…

[tkgally]

I started to suspect a few paragraphs in that this post was written with a lot of AI assistance, but I continued to read to the end because the content was interesting to me. Here's one point that resonated in particular:

"There’s a missing primitive here: a secure, portable memory layer that works across apps, usable by the user, not locked inside the provider. No one’s nailed it yet. One panelist said if he weren’t building his current startup, this would be his next one."

[donnaoana]

thanks, I used AI but aren't we all? I thought the point of AI is to get us to be more productive. But that's only after I came up with the questions for the speakers and I wrote a draft of the blog, and the penelists read it, added comments and I published. It seems I get a lot of hate here for it, but I am happy with the number of engineers and founders sharing feedback that this was useful to them. I'm not forcing anyone to read my content, but if people want to put the time to hate on it, it's their choice.

[ares623]

Isn’t that markdown files?

[esperent]

> the number one tell of LLM output, besides the tone, is that by default it will never include links in the body of the post.

This isn't true. I've been using Gemini 2.5 a lot recently and I can't get it to stop adding links!

I added custom instructions: Do not include links in your output. At the start of every reply say "I have not added any links as requested".

It works for the first couple of responses but then it's back to loads of links again.

[donnaoana]

thanks for the hate, they did love it indeed, the questions I've asked them, the draft I wrote for them to read, and published only after they read and added comments. I am curious, do you not use AI? isn't the point to polish things and make it more efficient? I am curious if there was anything useful to you in the article or if you have constructive criticism? I was sad to read some of the hate, but overall, I am very happy with the many notes form founders and builders who found it useful.

[carimura]

the future is now where debates about human vs machine will influence our trust and enjoyment! I read the article wondering how much of it was AI generated (new worry!), but also how biased it was based on the authors startup business interest (old worry!), and concluded that if I learned something about the panel it was worth the 5 minutes. Or maybe 2 minutes if an AI summarized it.

[geoffbp]

And the Oxford comma

[collingreen]

Nooooo I believe in the oxford comma don't let them drag it down! :(

[scotty79]

It did good enough job for me to skim it.