I Dumbed It Down And The Results Were Pretty Astounding
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Nico had been doing what everyone is told to do: write to the model in technical, technically correct language. It stopped working. He describes the models taking him very seriously and going way too laser focused on every little thing he said, and missing a lot. So he ran the opposite experiment. He took what would have been a very complex request, balled it up, and sent something closer to hey, make this work. He says the results were pretty astounding next to everything the careful version got him.
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