By the Power of Kent Beck: Guiding LLMs with Human Expertise with Tim O'Reilly

Human expertise can focus how an LLM approaches a problem. In this excerpt from his conversation with O’Reilly CTO Andrew Odewahn, Tim O’Reilly compares Andrew’s research agent to Doctor Strange invoking a source of power. Andrew’s agent draws on experts such as Kent Beck and established work such as Google’s SRE guidance to put its findings in context. Tim argues that an LLM becomes more useful when people treat it as a medium they can guide. Pointing it toward relevant expertise helps shape its analysis and gives people a stronger basis for discussing what it produces. Follow O'Reilly on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oreilly/ Facebook: http://facebook.com/OReilly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oreillymedia BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/oreilly.bsky.social TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@oreillymedia