Simon Willison’s Weblog

LLM bullshit knife, to cut through bs

RAG ->              Provide relevant context
Agentic ->          Function calls that work
CoT ->              Prompt model to think/plan
FewShot ->          Add examples
PromptEng ->        Someone w/good written comm skills.
Prompt Optimizer -> For loop to find best examples.

— Hamel Husain