Heard a dev say 'AI is just autocomplete on steroids' and it kinda clicked

I was at a small meetup in Austin last week and someone said that during a talk about LLMs. At first I thought they were being dismissive, but honestly it made me rethink how I prompt these things. Instead of treating AI like a magic brain, I started writing prompts like I'm giving instructions to a junior dev who needs every detail spelled out. Has anyone else found their results got way better after changing how they talk to the AI?

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elliot_harris258d ago

Same as learning to talk to Google differently in the early days.

green.mason8d ago

Guess Google was the first AI we all had to learn to talk to.