Annie Vella - You Can’t Prompt Your Way to Intuition
2025-05-29
That’s the real danger of shortcuts: they make you feel powerful and productive, but can lull you into a false sense of security. Without the intuition and habits forged by experience - knowing when to be wary, when to back up, when to double-check - you’re at risk of costly mistakes. These lessons aren’t learned by skipping to the answer; they’re earned by wrestling with real problems.
Intuition is what tells me whether the response I get from a LLM has a chance of being reasonable or just an hallucination. If I didn't have it I wouldn't be comfortable using them as a tool.