chrisalbon: Show me 3 months and 1000 prompts, not one magic prompt
chrisalbon · x · 2026-11-12
ML practitioner chrisalbon: "Don't show me something you did with one prompt. Show me something you did over three months with 1000 prompts, five resets, and a dozen all nighters." A widely resonant take that valuable AI-assisted work still comes from long, iterative engineering effort rather than single-prompt magic.
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