adamzwasserman

1. It is what you do after the prompt: scan diffs in real time and hit the escape key at the slightest sign of trouble.

2. Deep questioning. Constantly probing the assistant: what does it think it is trying to achieve, why did it just make decision X, is there a better way, what does it think the current constraint is?

3. Fighting drift. Knowing that the model will always try to regress to the mean of the training corpus, and constantly being on guard against that drift.

4. Keeping state in your head, because the model cannot. It is up to the programmer to remeber what connects to what else in what way and why.