Silvia just beat OpenAI, Claude, and Grok on a tax benchmark. While this is an impressive feat, this is not the important headline. Far from it. https://t.co/1fEs0EN01f
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I explained on Fox Business this morning.
The most underrated prompt I know takes 10 seconds:
> Prompt: It's six months from now. This plan failed. Tell me why.
Everyone enjoys a good post-mortem. Why not do a pre-mortem? Super intelligence makes it ridiculously easy.
If you just ask:
> is my plan good?
You usually get polite reassurance. Models tend to lean agreeable. Instead, ask:
> why did it fail?
Now you changed the models job. The new goal is now to find problems, and frontier models are pretty dang good at this.
Pre-mortems are particularly useful for:
> product launches
> budget builds
> marketing campaigns
This is a great exercise to try out if you want a different perspective.
I am becoming convinced that 99% of the World uses AI backwards.
Almost everyone writes a prompt, gets a mediocre answer, and blames the frontier model.
I recommend flipping the process. Have Opus/GPT interview you first.
In all of my prompts, I add one subtle line:
> before you start, ask me 5 questions you need answered to complete this task well
This is great, because I often forget to include important details and context in the original prompt. The interview is a chance for me to provide information I may have missed.
This also forces you to clarify. Half the time, answering the questions is what makes you realize what you actually want.
The best frontier model responses come from real context, not better prompts.
We did the same thing @cfosilvia. Fine-tuned Qwen to do the quant work for our users. It beats Opus 5 on our tests and costs like 93% less to run.
Every company will come to the same realization.
Meta Muse growth is already beginning to slow down. It’s had a good run, but agent competition is heating up.
I don’t use Muse and can’t think of a personal use case where it makes sense. But that is just me personally. I am sure it’s a great product.
Grok Bot is just too good and it has all of my context. And it becoming model agnostic just locked me in for good. To switch, the ROI would have to be significant. I suspect there are thousands of users in a similar situation to me.
Once you have a personal agent dialed with the right context and workflows, it becomes similar to a credit card. You rarely switch or get a new card more than two times in your life.
I have been banging the drum about companies fine-tuning their own models and now Coinbase is saying they are doing it themselves.
Faster, cheaper, better than the frontier models.
This is exactly how @cfosilvia reached outperformance in important personal finance topics.
When does it make sense to use Fable when Opus 5.5 can handle pretty much everything?
Even Fable on low still underperforms Opus 5.5 Medium/High in my opinion.
I have a complex insurance situation. I recently asked @cfosilvia about it, providing my policy statement and context.
Silvia didn't just answer my questions...it caught risks and policy language that I wasn't even aware of. The answer was far more in depth and nuanced than I originally thought. Silvia presented the risks and outcomes in a clear and concise manner, allowing me to make the best informed decision.
There is no way I am getting this level of expertise and detail from an insurance agent - particularly on a Sunday.
@cfosilvia is freaking awesome.