Andrej Karpathy who coined Vibe Coding shares tips for writing better AI prompts
AI researcher Andrej Karpathy suggests that users should use voice-to-text to 'ramble' at AI models rather than crafting perfect prompts. He argues that providing more context through stream-of-consciousness speech helps LLMs better understand complex goals.
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This approach challenges the emerging 'prompt engineering' industry and suggests a shift toward more natural, conversational human-AI interaction.
Andrej Karpathy, the prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researcher who famously coined the term “vibe coding,” has a piece of advice for anyone spending hours crafting the “perfect” text prompt for AI: stop trying so hard. Instead of typing out neat, polished instructions, Karpathy suggests users of AI chatbots should simply open the microphone and ramble.In a post on X, the former OpenAI and Tesla executive, who is now a leading AI researcher at Anthropic, revealed that his go-to prompting strategy involves turning on voice mode and talking continuously at a large language model (LLM) for nearly 10 minutes at a time.“Sometimes the LLM needs more bits to understand what you're trying to achieve,” Karpathy wrote, describing his rambling voice sessions as a “total mess, anything goes, full stream of consciousness.”‘Let AI do the organising’According to Karpathy, rambling aloud creates a far better division of labour between human intuition and machine…
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