Since everyone is talking to the same models, “skilled prompters” are getting the same results as people touching LLMs for the first time. But the idea here — that domain knowledge makes you better at using LLMs — is something I’ve also experienced in my own work. Most of us will have to do a mix of both these approaches, since we have domain knowledge in some areas but not others. The usefulness of domain knowledge suggests that human expertise will continue to be useful even as models get stronger. Some commenters share their anecdotes about how expertise has helped and lack of expertise has hurt.