Simons: Base AI models provide a 10x lift; agent scaffolding adds 3-4x
Eric Simons · 0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo) · Dec 2, 2024 · at 1:03:09
StackBlitz CEO Eric Simons breaks down the relative performance contributions of base LLMs versus application-level prompt engineering and multi-agent workflows.
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“The model is like this sort of like 10 X multiplier. You're, how good the bottom line model is, huge, huge swing. And then kind of what you can do on top of that, you can squeeze out three, four X kind of more. And so that's kind of where the realm of, you know, prompt engineering and, you know, multi-agent approaches, et cetera, kind of kick in.”
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