Tan: Users who do not write prompts fall below the API line
“Unless you have your own prompts and you can write it for yourself, like you are You know, below the API line for some PM or developer that is not you who like will not understand you will not understand your needs will not understand what you uniquely care ab…”
Balaji Srinivasan: AI splits engineering into prompt-writers and verifiers
“Engineering gets split into the engineering manager type person who's writing the prompts, and the technician is doing the verification.”
McDermott: Enterprise AI Simulates Memory via Context Window Summaries
“I think we're experiencing memory through putting really good summaries into the context window, right, or into the prompt.”
Shlomo: Base44 processes tens of thousands of prompts per minute
“Nowadays we get, like, tens of thousands of prompts, like, a minute or whatever in tandem, and so we measure the sentiment”
Misra: Adding context to prompts reduces LLM prediction entropy
“The moment you add more context. You make the prompt information rich. The prediction entropy reduces.”
Sam Lessin: Public prompts prevent creators from building moats on Sora
“Those prompts are all public, Brit. So no one can create a competitive advantage in the content of the prompts. Like if anything, the whole design is then to rip them.”
Welser: Current LLM systems are inherently sycophantic
“So right now these systems are sycophantic. They are, they're based on our prompts. They're going to take what we say and give us back what we've asked, and then we're going to iterate.”
Balaji Srinivasan: AI prompts are programs for an undocumented, error-tolerant API
“Prompts are tiny programs, which is more common today, but I think, yeah, at least I articulated it went viral a while ago, and, but they're programs in a hidden API. Because normally you have an API that is fully documented, but very error intolerant, right? …”
Shipper: Every codifies executive editorial feedback into AI prompts for writers
“One of my big goals for us last quarter was don't repeat yourself. So I don't want to ever say the same thing in a meeting twice. If I can help it so for us at every, like one of the big parts of every is we have a daily newsletter and I'm spending a lot of ti…”
Wilkinson: Prompt engineering will become obsolete as AI elicits intent
“And I think now people are saying people need to learn how to prompt, which I think is very true for the tool set right now, but I don't know how relevant that is in the future because I think we're still, again, in the palm trio phase. I think that the AIs wi…”
Greg Isenberg: Repeating an AI prompt weekly signals a standalone software product
“If you're repeating the same prompt weekly, that's a product in, in hiding in plain sight.”
Chennapragada: Prompts are the new dropdown menus for natural language interfaces
“Prompt itself is a new construct, and that's a new way, that's a new UI element, just like a dropdown was or a menu was.”
Appenzeller: Natural language prompts are the narrow waist abstraction of AI
“I think we have the waste, the narrow waste. I think it's the prompt.”
Shulman: The term 'prompt' will disappear within six to twelve months
“I hope that, you know, in, in six months from now, or 12 months from now, we're not using the word prompt. There are just far more intuitive ways to interact with the music, and we shouldn't be guiding you we should be listening to you if that makes sense.”
Field: Design requires iterative AI loops because prompts cannot capture full context
“In the design context one thing that really matters a lot is the iterative loop and being able to keep going back and forth to an agent and give more instructions over time. If you just kind of like go to first principles here, there's so much that you're not …”
Chase: LLM prompts will likely converge as models become more intelligent
“I do think
the prompts will probably start to converge in the sense that if you think the models are getting more and more intelligent than like, hopefully these small idiosyncratic sees don't matter as much.”
Evans: AI prompts are just a return to the command line
“And so this point is a command line again.
And this is Bill Gates's point that GUIs replace command lines.
Well, you get, you've just given me a command line now.
That's what a prompt is.”
Sankar: Chat is a limiting interface; prompts are meant for developers
“Chat is a massively limiting interface, you know, at the limit prompts are for developers.”
Butcher: AI output quality will still depend on creator talent
“The ability to create prompts, there's still going to be differentiated outputs based on the talent of the person who is using the technology.”
Fogg: Behavior requires motivation, ability, and a prompt converging simultaneously
“Behavior happens when three things come together at the same moment. Motivation, ability, and prompt.”