I completely agree that communication skills are critical in extracting useful work or insight from LLMs. The analogy for communicating with people is not far-fetched. Communicating successfully with a specific person requires an understanding of their strengths and weaknesses, their tendencies and blind spots. The same is true for communicating with LLMs.
I have actually found that from a documentation point of view, querying LLMs has made me better and explaining things to people. If, given the documentation for a system or API, a modern LLM can't answer specific questions about how to perform a task, a person using the same documentation will also likely struggle. It's proving to be a good way to test the effectiveness of documentation, for humans and for LLMs.
I have actually found that from a documentation point of view, querying LLMs has made me better and explaining things to people. If, given the documentation for a system or API, a modern LLM can't answer specific questions about how to perform a task, a person using the same documentation will also likely struggle. It's proving to be a good way to test the effectiveness of documentation, for humans and for LLMs.