@AnthropicAI: Domain experts—as judged by the questions they ask and vocabulary they use about a subject—are more likely to see succe…
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Anthropic shares that domain experts show higher success in coding, but the gap between intermediate and expert users is modest, suggesting domain proficiency is sufficient.
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Domain experts—as judged by the questions they ask and vocabulary they use about a subject—are more likely to see success.
But the gap between intermediate and expert users is quite modest, suggesting that proficiency in a domain is sufficient to code successfully within it. https://t.co/tZZ7jVYpTB
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