{"id":594,"date":"2025-08-05T15:42:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T14:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/?p=594"},"modified":"2025-08-15T19:17:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T18:17:36","slug":"an-emerging-discipline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/an-emerging-discipline\/","title":{"rendered":"An emerging discipline?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"is-style-text-annotation is-style-text-annotation--1\">Transparency label: AI-assisted<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/an-llm-is-like-an-operating-system\/\">a recent pos<\/a>t<a href=\"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/an-llm-is-like-an-operating-system\/\">,<\/a> I observed that LLMs are coming to be seen as like computer operating systems, with prompts being the new application programs and context  the new user interface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/precision-content-prompt-pack\/\"><strong>precision content prompt pack<\/strong><\/a> is a good example of that thinking. The pack contains a set of prompts designed to take an unstructured document (notes of a meeting, perhaps) and apply structure (precision content) to the information it contains. We do this because AIs perform better if we give them structured information. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We apply the prompts in sequence, checking the AI\u2019s output at each step in the sequence. In effect, it is a program that we run on the AI.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/contract-first-prompting\/\"><strong>Contract-first prompting<\/strong><\/a> takes the idea further.\u00a0It formalises the interaction between human and AI into a negotiated agreement about purpose, scope, constraints, and deliverables before any output is generated.\u00a0This ensures that both sides \u2013 human and AI \u2013 share the same understanding of the the work to be done.\u00a0The agreement also contains compliance mechanisms (eg summarisation, clarifying loops, and self-testing) for quality control. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These ideas reframe the interaction between human and AI: not as simply issuing prompts, but as engineering the conditions under which the AI will perform.  Not just prompting, more like <em>contextual systems engineering<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-text-annotation is-style-text-annotation--2\">Transparency label justification<strong>:<\/strong> This diary post was drafted by Alec, with ChatGPT used to suggest edits, refine wording, and test the logic of specific formulations. Alec initiated the framing, decided the sequence of ideas, and approved the final structure and terminology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transparency label: AI-assisted In a recent post, I observed that LLMs are coming to be seen as like computer operating systems, with prompts being the new application programs and context the new user interface. Our precision content prompt pack is a good example of that thinking. The pack contains a set of prompts designed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[221,234,233,236,209,44,235],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-context","tag-context-design","tag-contract-first","tag-human-ai-interaction","tag-llm","tag-prompting","tag-structured-prompting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":820,"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anapoly.co.uk\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}