Glossary of Terms
Definitions of key terms used throughout the guide and commonly found in the LLM/AI coding space.
Key Points:
- Definitions for: LLM, Prompt Engineering, Specification (and brief definition of each type covered), Hallucination, Fine-tuning, Token, Context Window, Temperature (LLM parameter), Few-shot/Zero-shot prompting.
- Definition of llm.txt and llmd.txt: (Proposing standard usage)
- llm.txt: A project-level file (in the root directory) containing guidelines, constraints, and context for LLMs assisting with the project (e.g., preferred libraries, architectural patterns to follow/avoid, general coding standards).
- llmd.txt: Directory-specific files containing context, examples, or specific instructions relevant only to the code within that directory (e.g., details about a specific module, examples of patterns used in that area).
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