It is continuously shocking how the standard approach to understanding how LLM prompting works, by people who claim to be knowledgeable enthusiasts about LLMs, is as a form of prayer or ritual invocation, but they are convinced that it’s actually reasoning stuff like this out
vortex egg, cyberoccult investigator
Attempting a longer explanation... someone on social media was trying to convince me that we don't need to worry about LLM fabrications because we can all just "ask for confidence levels" constantly. I went to google to search for discussion of/research about this.
