prompting

5 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Dec 2, 2024 by Itamar Friedman · across every show →

Everything said about prompting, oldest first

Dec 2, 2024 positive
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Friedman: Breaking coding tasks into smaller blocks reduces prompt sensitivity
“When you take a big block, a big problem, you need a very different prompt for each one of the models to actually work. But when you take a, like a big problem and break it into small tasks, we can talk how we do that. Then the prompt matters less.”
Itamar Friedman Dec 2, 2024 ▶ 43:59 0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
Feb 11, 2025 neutral
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Natural Language Prompts Can Never Completely Specify Complex Software Systems
“Prompts are great, but it's not actually a complete specification for anything. It never can be.”
Bret Taylor Feb 11, 2025 ▶ 56:58 The AI Architect: Bret Taylor
Apr 5, 2025 negative
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Hershey: Prompt engineering cannot fix Claude's visual comprehension limitations
“Vision is, like, pretty beyond fixing with a prompt. Again, go for it. Have fun. I've spent a lot of hours, like, overlaying grids, overlaying images, stretching, compressing, contrast colors, all sorts of stuff.”
David Hershey Apr 5, 2025 ▶ 12:54 Claude Plays Pokémon Hackathon: Escape from Mt. Moon!
Feb 5, 2026 negative
Disclosure
Deng: Goodfire's first steering API trailed prompting and fine-tuning
“When it comes to like control and design of models, you know, we tried steering with our first API and realized that it still fell short of black box techniques like prompting or fine tuning.”
Myra Deng Feb 5, 2026 ▶ 16:05 Goodfire AI’s Bet: Interpretability as the Next Frontier of Model Design — Myra Deng & Mark Bissell
May 24, 2026 bullish
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Sanseviero: Most Conversational Model Behavior Changes Can Be Done via Prompting
“Just changing how the model behaves, you can do most, most of that via prompting nowadays, and in terms of capabilities, the models are very good out of the box.”
Omar Sanseviero May 24, 2026 ▶ 14:32 ⚡️ Google's Open AI Strategy — Omar Sanseviero, Google DeepMind
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