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Michael Sickles
Staff Solution Architect
Michael started off in software engineering before making the jump into Sales Engineering. He comes from the APM space and likes to retain his developer centric mentality. His interests are in coding, coffee, video games, rock climbing, and D&D to which he proudly enjoys.
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Effortless Engineering: Quick Tips for Crafting Prompts
Large Language Models (LLMs) are all the rage in software development, and for good reason: they provide crucial opportunities to positively enhance our software. At Honeycomb, we saw an opportunity in the form of Query Assistant, a feature that can help engineers ask questions of their systems in plain English. But we certainly encountered issues while building it—issues you’ll most likely face too if you’re building a product with LLMs—with the main one being, how do we get the model to return data in a way that works with our softwa