Prompting is not Questioning
Prompting is not the same as questioning, but rather programming. Most people think that prompting means speaking with an AI, but that's not the case. The AI predicts word by word, rather than thinking or reasoning. Therefore, it's essential to write clear and precise prompts to achieve good results.
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Prompting is not asking questions. It is programming with words.
Many people believe that prompting means talking to an AI.
This very assumption is the cause of most poor results.
You type something in.
You expect the model to understand you.
What comes back is something generic, imprecise, or confidently wrong.
This is not because the AI has misunderstood you.
But because you have not asked a question.
You have written a program without realizing it.
The mental model that most people have wrong
The common assumption is:
"I am asking ChatGPT for help."
What is actually happening:
You are giving an autocomplete system an incomplete pattern
