Define “prompt”
Define “prompt”
Posted Oct 16, 2025 13:40 UTC (Thu) by kleptog (subscriber, #1183)In reply to: Define “prompt” by SLi
Parent article: The FSF considers large language models
I find LLMs especially useful for finding what the big picture is. If I'm trying to working why something isn't working, it can give you the name of the component that probably has the issue and so then you can search for it.
The first time I really saw this was when I was trying to do something with CodeMirror and was getting all sorts of conflicting advice from different sites. Eventually fed the errors to ChatGPT and it pointed out that version 5 and 6 use completely different configuration styles. No search engine would have told me that info. No website specifies which version they are using.
And for one off scripts it's amazing. Hey, I need a script that does the steps X, Y and Z in Python. Here is the previous bash script that did this. And voila.
Treat it like an idiot that knows everything and understands nothing. Because that's what it is... The trick is to combine your understanding with its knowledge.