2025-11-28 What Is Lars Thinking ("WILT")

Submitted by Lars.Toomre on Fri, 11/28/2025 - 12:00

During this year's Thanksgiving festivities and gatherings, the BRC FinTech team had several conversations about the current state of Large Language Models ("LLMs") and the future of Artificial Intelligence ("AI"). Almost everyone expressed wonder at how "good" and relatively complete model responses have become, often giving near PhD-level answers that sometimes sound more knowledgeable and confident than their information retrieval and knowledge warrants. The conversations then devolved into various LLM prompting strategies and advanced learning discussions.

Let me thus be a bit more concrete. Say one is interested in a concept like `Agentic AI` and has a maximum of three hours to perform a deeper dive on this topic. Assuming that one knew relatively little about the subject beforehand, what LLM prompt would you use to guide you on this learning experience? Your thoughts and comments are welcome below.