--- title: LLMs reward expertise | daily.dev description: Domain expertise is the most important factor in getting value from LLMs, not generic prompting tricks. Using Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/llms-reward-expertise-ssrxi8jij twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: LLMs reward expertise | daily.dev og:description: Domain expertise is the most important factor in getting value from LLMs, not generic prompting tricks. Using Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/llms-reward-expertise-ssrxi8jij og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/SSrxi8jiJ.png og:image:alt: LLMs reward expertise og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # LLMs reward expertise **[sean goedecke](https://daily.dev/sources/seangoedecke)** · 5 min read · 19 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary Domain expertise is the most important factor in getting value from LLMs, not generic prompting tricks. Using Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture as an example, the author shows that experts extract far more from models because they can steer conversations, identify wrong answers, and suggest better approaches. The same principle applies to software development: deep familiarity with a codebase lets developers push LLMs much harder than novices can. This suggests human expertise remains valuable even as models improve, because the bottleneck is often the human's ability to communicate precisely what solution they want. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@confidentcoding** · 3 upvotes > If these tools _reward expertise_, yet the tools can _actively circumvent_ the friction that _cultivates expertise_, then what is the path for one to _become an expert_ so they can effectively [use these tools](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-coding-will-prevent-expertise-the-need-for-ongoing-friction-in-long-term-skill-formation--qiv3i2hlk)? ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Experts Have World Models. 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