Essay argues domain expertise is the real skill behind LLM prompting

Essay argues domain expertise — not prompting technique — determines LLM output quality. It points to Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about a Jacobian Conjecture counterexample: Tao's terse, pushback-laden messages put the model in 'talking-to-mathematicians' mode that novices can't replicate, because understanding the math does the real work.
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