[smhinsey]

This gets at the heart of the quality of results issues a lot of people are talking about elsewhere here. Right now, if you treat them as a system where you can tell it what you want and it will do it for you, you're building a sandcastle. Instead of that, also describe the correct data structures and appropriate algorithms to use against them, as well as the particulars of how you want the problem solved, it's a different situation altogether. Like most systems, the quality of output is in some way determined by the quality of input.

There is a strange insistence on not helping the LLM arrive at the best outcome in the subtext to this question a lot of times. I feel like we are living through the John Henry legend in real time