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Amanda Caswell

Tired of burning through expensive ChatGPT usage limits just to get mediocre answers? Try the free ‘local AI’ trick that unlocks the perfect prompt every single time

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I've started noticing a growing trend among AI users. Instead of using local AI to replace ChatGPT, they are using it before ChatGPT. A quick browse through Reddit communities like r/LocalLLaMA and r/WritingWithAI shows power users actively programming tools like LM Studio to act as 'prompt-engineering assistants'—forcing the AI to ask them 5 questions about their goals before generating the final prompt.

At first, that sounded backwards. Why would anyone run a prompt through a smaller AI model before sending it to one of the most powerful AI systems available? The process of prompting the AI to ask questions works, but why would you start with local AI?

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