frame accepted goes to: this-edition A all three
A prompt is a lens: translating into another language is, to a model, the same as explaining for a teenager or a doctor
A model holds the frames of reference of many audiences, and the prompt puts the right lens in front of the idea; the analogy is the reason someone understands something. People who say they are bad at maths do maths all day: it was the lens that was wrong, which is why the book shows multiple lenses.
Decided by. Dinis, in Lenses, roles and loops; the editor records it in the vault
Note. The hands-on part gets the lenses exercise (editor's task 2): one idea through five lenses, the reader's own choice.
Where it comes from
- Lenses, roles and loops A prompt is a lens (article)
- Lenses, roles and loops the lenses panels (storyboard)
What it answers in the 2018 book
- none named
Where it goes
Chapter Lenses, roles and loops, part The frame (drafting); topic Everyone who can brief an agent is a developer now.
Other ideas proposed for the same chapter: A role is a model with a description and a question; an agent is that role on a loop with a goal, Tools changed everything: the model answers with a request, the program runs it, and the result goes into the next request, The model remembers nothing between requests: every request carries the whole conversation, which is why there is a context window, Long chats are compressed into a lower-resolution summary, so details drop out: work in many focused threads with named agents.
Node idea:a-prompt-is-a-lens in graph.json; see it in the graph. Source: admin/content/graph/ideas.json.