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> it worked for me once last night..

This !

Yeah, it probably "worked for me" because they spent a gazillion hours engaging in what the LLM fanbois call "prompt engineering", but you and I would call "engaging in endless iterative hacky work-arounds until you find a prompt that works".

Unless its something extremely simple, the chances of an LLM giving you a workable answer on the first attempt is microscopic.




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