Prompt engineering sophistication among top LLM users is vastly higher than amateur use; leaked system prompts for Claude and ChatGPT are ~10,000 words long and extraordinarily sophisticated, while average users create 2-line prompts, suggesting massive performance gap from user skill variation.

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Rory Sutherland

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when you start to see the instructions for the large language models that you know the claudes and the the chat GPTs get leaked and and they've got a prompt and they have the system prompt for uh for these these things and they're 10,000 words long. incredibly sophisticated

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Tyler Cowen on how AI will reorder economies, schools, and spiritualityAzeem Azhar
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:14:08 AM

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