Pro tip: a guy on a Discord server told me to stop fine tuning and just add examples to my prompt, he was right
I'm not a coder, I just mess around with AI stuff as a hobby. About two months ago I was trying to get a model to write product blurbs for my sister's candle shop in Boise, and the output kept coming out flat and generic no matter what I did. This guy named Ray on a small Discord server told me to stop overthinking it, stop tweaking settings, and just paste 10 real examples of blurbs I liked right into the prompt. I thought that was too simple and kind of lazy, so I ignored him for like two weeks. Then one night I got frustrated, tried it, and the very first output was honestly 80% there already. I spent maybe 15 minutes dropping in examples instead of the 3 hours I wasted fiddling with settings. I still feel a little dumb about it. Now I want to know, what's the one dumb simple trick someone gave you about working with AI that you brushed off at first?