Yes, you have to learn those things. LLMs are hard to use.

So are animals, but we've used dogs and falcons and truffle hunting pigs as tools for thousands of years.

Non-deterministic tools are still tools, they just take a bunch more work to figure out.

It's like having Michael Jordan with dementia on your team. You start out mesmerized by how many points he can score, and then you get incredibly frustrated that he forgets he has to dribble and shoot into the correct hoop.

> So are animals, but we've used dogs and falcons and truffle hunting pigs as tools for thousands of years.

Dogs learn their jobs way faster, more consistently and more expressively than any AI tool.

Trivially, dogs understand "good dog" and "bad dog" for example.

Reinforcement learning with AI tooling clearly seems not to work.