Prompt tip: "explain like I'm lost" beats "explain like I'm 5"
aidenybai · x · 2026-09-26
Developer Aiden Bai offers a prompt-tuning tip: prefer "explain like I'm lost" over "explain like I'm 5". The idea is to have the model keep interfacing with the raw vocabulary of the field while simply assuming the reader is a beginner — avoiding the over-simplification that comes from asking it to talk down to a child.
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