I've been playing with LLMs in various forms since 2017 and was already late to the game.
lll give you the short timeline:
- pre 2022 - "What's a system prompt?"
- 2022 - January 2026 - "Prompt harder bro"
- February 2026 - "Actually your prompts could be making the output worse, so your better off not instructing them at all"
