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LLMs reward expertise

Hacker News · history · fact-check: pass
SummaryResearch insight that LLMs perform better when given domain expertise context—useful framing for how to prompt AI tools more effectively at work.
174 → 1,409 points · peak 1,409 · 40 observations
Posted on X · 2026-08-04The expert gets better AI outputs not because they prompt better, but because they can tell when the answer is wrong. The model doesn't reward expertise. Verification does. Those look identical in a demo and nothing alike in production.