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Certified in AI (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] 87 points 2 years ago* (12 children)

Can you type words? Congrats! You are now a Prompt Engineer!

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  • [–] 90 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    being a prompt engineer is so much more than typing words. you also have to sometimes delete the words and then type new ones

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    Don't forget that its much more effort than teaching a child, sometimes no matter your words, the machine can be stubborn. It is a very difficult and misunderstood profession, sometimes my head aches a little from typing the same thing over again, expecting a different result. But together we will hallucinate the future, engineering one word at a time.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    There's also jailbreaking the AI. If you happen to work for a trollfarm, you have to be up to date with the newest words to bypass its community guidelines to make it "disprove" anyone left of Mussolini.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    The most important part of being a prompt engineer is knowing when the responses are bullshit. Which is how the AI field has been the whole time - it selects for niche expertise.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    So you simply already need to know what you're asking it, gotcha. Seems easy enough.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    Kind of, it's kind of like using a calculator instead of doing arithmetic by hand when doing load and strain calculations. It's a tool which cuts down on the tedious (and error prone) parts of engineering but doesn't replace the expertise. I use it frequently to write code snippets for things I don't know the exact sytax for but could easily look up. It just saves time.

    Like, we have a guy whose entire job is to understand the ins and outs of a particular bit of modeling software. In the future that will likely be a person who runs the AI which understands the ins and outs of the modeling software. And eventually the AI will replace that software entirely.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Jokes aside, LLMs are actually pretty nice, since they lower the barrier to entry for programming. A guy I know has been doing all of his data processing with obscure Excel hacks his entire life. But recently he had to parse a file with like a million or so lines, which would take forever in excel, so now he's hacking together a python script using ChatGPT and meta ai. And in the process, he's actually picking up a bit of python knowledge himself. He now knows what lists are, how loops and if statements work, and he even understands "intermediate" features like list comprehension and regex. They said llms would replace programmers, but in reality they're making more of us lol

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    recently he had to parse a file with like a million or so lines, which would take forever in excel ... so now he’s hacking together a python script using ChatGPT and meta ai.

    Has your friend heard of SQL? And you know, databases?

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