> Using this stuff well is a deep topic. These things can be applied in so many different ways, and to so many different projects. The best asset you can develop is an intuition for what works and what doesn't, and getting that intuition requires months if not years of personal experimentation.

You feel that way because it took you years or months to reach that point. But after reaching that point, do you really think that it's equally—if not more—difficult to put what you learned into words compared to, let's say, programming or engineering?

See, the thing about these tools is that they're designed to be operated via natural language, which is something most people (with a certain level of education) are quite comparable to each other at; consequently, the skill ceiling is considerably lower compared to something like programming. I am not saying there's no variance in people's ability to articulate, but that the variance is considerably less than what we get when comparing people's ability to write code or solve engineering problems.

So, whatever you learned by trial and error was just different ways or methods to get around the imperfections of the existing LLMs—not ways to use them skillfully according to their design goals. Their design goal is to achieve whatever task is given to them, as long as the intent is clear. These workarounds and tricks that you learned aren't something you build an intuition for. What you build an intuition for is finding new workarounds, but once you've found them, they're quite concrete and easy to describe to someone else who can simply use them to achieve the same results as you.

Tools that are designed to be operable via natural language aren't designed to be more thorough—it's actually the opposite. If you want more control, you have programming languages and search engines; thoroughness is where you get that high skill ceiling. The skill ceiling for using these tools is going to get narrower and narrower. The workarounds that you figure out may take skill to discover, but they don't take much skill to replicate.

If you share your "tips and tricks" with someone, then yeah, it will take them a week to start getting the same results as you because the skill ceiling is low and the workarounds are concrete/require less thinking.