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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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