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by bryced 1250 days ago
Been doing a lot with prompts lately. What people are calling "prompt engineering" I'd call "knowing what to even ask for and also asking for it in a clear manner". That was a valuable skill before computers and will continue to be one as AI progresses.

I've been pretty disappointed to introduce ChatGPT to people in jobs where it would be a game changer and they just don't know what to do with it. They ask it for not-useful things or useful things in a non-productive way. "here is some ad copy I wrote, write it better". Whether you're instructing a human, chatgpt, or AI god... that's just too vague of instructions.

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> I'd call "knowing what to even ask for and also asking for it in a clear manner".

It was a very important skill for searching. Nowadays, with Google "I know what you want better than you" search, it’s not that useful anymore (not useless, I get better search results by not using google and knowing what I want, just less required).

Most people struggle with deliberate logical thought.