Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet is taking a big lead in AI Usability with yesterday's announcement of automatic test case generation via the Anthropic Console. The built-in prompt generator now easily tests, evaluates, and compares results.
Using the prompt generator, you explain the task you want to achieve, and Claude creates high-quality prompts for you. This decreases the need for users to become expert prompt engineers.
In my opinion, prompt engineering is analogous to HTML/CSS development during the internet revolution. No one manually develops in HTML/CSS anymore, automated solutions such as Squarespace do this for you. Eventually, I believe we will not need to be expert prompt engineers either.
The Anthropic Console allows you to define variables for your prompts by providing an example input such as an email or SMS template. The Console can automatically generate test cases of your test prompts based on the input you defined.
The test cases are automatically executed, and a human can evaluate the accuracy of the results. Tweak the prompt and re-execute the tests to see the impact of your change quickly.
We are rapidly moving toward a future in which humans describe the task they want to achieve and provide sample inputs, and AI writes the code, generates test cases, and executes them for humans to evaluate.
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3moI like the term "agent-friendly API" and think that as API providers we should work towards them. As an industry we're currently working out what that means, but I think it's safe to say that APIs will serve mostly agents in the future and will not need to be optimized for human developers. Right now APIs are 100% the latter and none of the former. As someone who's worked on API Design and Developer Experience, it's both scary and exciting - but inevitable.