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# Domain knowledge beats prompt skill
- URL: https://blog.alantaranti.me/thoughts/domain-knowledge-beats-prompt-skill/
- Published: 2026-08-07T15:38:19.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-07T15:38:19.000Z
- Description: People who know the domain get far more out of LLMs than people who don't. It's not about prompt skill, it's about knowing what to ask
- Author: Alan Taranti
- Tags: #thought, ai, llm, expertise, engineering

People who know the domain get a lot more out of LLMs than people who don't  
It's not about prompt skill, it's about knowing what to ask

When an agent proposes a fix, I already know that pattern breaks in production — without reading a single line of code

Someone without that context just takes the first answer  
The right answer is already in the model, it just takes someone who knows how to pull it out