All LLMs understand natural language. All LLMs understand examples. That's honestly more compatibility than you get nearly anywhere, in anything.
The reason why advanced prompting is a moving target is that a lot of prompting is "use extra instructions to compensate for specific ways in which the target LLM is weak or prone to errors". And guess what? LLMs get better over time - obsoleting your advanced prompting.
"Tune a prompt to death for the specific task and the specific model" gets you better performance in the moment, but "trust LLM to be smart" ages a lot more gracefully.
And guess what? LLMs get better over time - obsoleting your advanced prompting.
It's nowhere near that simple. For instance, models used to be WAY better at writing, until the labs decided that coding ability was a better thing to focus on, and trained successor models accordingly.
bluegatty · · focus · HN ↗
AI is rapidly saturating it's ability to be useful and these products need to start to mature.
It's not 'fun' to manage 50 different broken MCPs and their variety of ways in which they are broken.
It was 'fun' at the start, now it's just 'broken technology'.
Astra and Opus 5.5 are the 'starting point' for the next era of AI where we expect robust tooling.
ACCount39 · · focus · HN ↗
The reason why advanced prompting is a moving target is that a lot of prompting is "use extra instructions to compensate for specific ways in which the target LLM is weak or prone to errors". And guess what? LLMs get better over time - obsoleting your advanced prompting.
"Tune a prompt to death for the specific task and the specific model" gets you better performance in the moment, but "trust LLM to be smart" ages a lot more gracefully.
mpalmer · · focus · HN ↗