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How to Use LLMs

A high level guide to using LLMs, taking advantage of the breadth of features available today.

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Be Mindful​

Be aware of the following:

  • What model are you using? Larger vs smaller models, more expensive vs cheaper models.
    • It might be preferable to pay for the higher tier models

Questions​

Knowledge based questions:

  • ChatGPT answers questions best surrounding past knowledge that is frequent on the internet and hence the training data
  • The more information regarding the topic on the internet, the more likely the answer is to be accurate

Thinking Models​

Thinking models e.g. o1 are tuned with RL for improved thinking - they perform better on hard problems. Consider using thinking models for hard coding or math problems as opposed to more trivial tasks like travel recommendations.