There are an almost unlimited number of ways you can prompt it that will produce obviously bad results.
The trick to using it effectively is to figure out the ways of prompting it that produce GOOD results.
The trick to using it effectively is to figure out the ways of prompting it that produce GOOD results.
At this point I'm pretty confident it helps them. They need to understand that it's not infallible, but I think most people figure that out pretty quickly after using it for more than a few days.
There's absolutely a skill to using these things well, and it's a difficult one to teach because it's based more on intuition that you develop over time.
The key thing is helping people understand the strengths and limitations of these tools. That's something I do think we can teach.
Might as well just learn to code then.
I used to be smug about getting good results from GPT while coworkers failed to get it to produce anything useful, but over time my luck changed, and GPT stopped nailing it. If you remember there was a bunch of conspiracy talk that GPT got lobotomized, was no longer writing full programs anymore etc, but what really happened is people who got used to rolling 7s started rolling 2s and 3s and shook their fists in anger at their change of luck.