doing some prompt engineering consulting devs are in italy chillin' all weekend re-made their internal tooling with @lovable in 30 minutes unblocked
PROMPT ENGINEERING
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MCP Useful Tool But Not Universal Solution
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Reasoning Emergence in LLMs Pre-training and Q&A Data
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You mean that reasoning may emerge from pre-training itself? I think that current-gen LLMs are capable of some reasoning w/o explicit reasoning methodology applied to them. But then, the tricky part is most LLMs nowadays have Q&A data in their pre-training set. And if you think
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LLM Prompt Classification and Reasoning Toggle Strategies
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Yeah, it's going to be interesting. You can do it either with 1) a 2nd cheap LLM that classifies the prompt as "reasoning" / "non-reasoning" and then modifies the system prompt and/or adds a special token as a toggle
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LlamaCoder: The Future of Directing Code Over Writing
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While LlamaCoder helps you generate an entire prototype application from prompts. Again, the future of coding might be more about directing than writing code.
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ALX AI 4-Week Journey: Practical Tools for Real-World Problems
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And just like that, my 4-week ALX AI journey has come to an end! Week 4 was the perfect finale, exploring powerful AI tools that I can immediately apply to real-world problems. Here's what we discovered in our final week…
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Learning Programming Top-Down Approach With LLMs
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I learned programming by memorizing endless syntax and lots of behind the scenes concepts (that I never used once the classes were over) before building anything meaningful. But with LLMs, there’s a whole new “top-down” way to learn: start with an idea, build the foundation
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Optimizing Prompts for AI Agent Performance
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Better Prompts = Better AI Results AI agents are powerful, but garbage in = garbage out. Use these expert prompts, and watch your AI agents work like highly paid employees.
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Using AI Personal Assistants for Weekly Task Planning
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9. AI Personal Assistant (Rewind AI, Clara AI, ChatGPT Personal AI) Prompt: "Plan my week based on these tasks: [list of tasks]. Prioritize the most important and suggest time slots for each."
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Practical Prompting for AI Finance Agents
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7. AI Finance Agent (Vic. ai, Brex AI, Ramp AI) Prompt: "Analyze my monthly business expenses and suggest areas to cut costs. Provide a summary with action steps."