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by echelon 1206 days ago
> I just can't believe how idiotic such a thing is.

Well, you do you. That's old world thinking for a field that's going to dramatically morph into something that barely resembles what we have today.

I'm hiring a contract prompt engineer for my startup.

If you want to help us achieve better "TV replacement" results, send me an email (see profile).

https://fakeyou.com/news (early demo, more coming soon!)
1 comments
superdisk 1206 days ago
Sounds good to me. Since the job doesn't require any skills, I think we should proceed to the negotiation phase. How does 500/hr sound?
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echelon 1206 days ago
> Since the job doesn't require any skills

Oh like hell it requires no skill.

You tell me how you'll generate better photos, improve dialogue coherence across multiple speakers, and control camera direction and movement (something we're using LLMs for too as we experiment with special-purposed models).

All of this is not known a priori, by the way. And I won't accept building a database or lookup table as an answer.

I also want to know how you'll test, benchmark, and refine.

You also need to budget for inference complexity.

I'm waiting :)

I can do this myself, but it is a full time job. I am so busy with all other aspects of my business I'm looking for people to bring on board.

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superdisk 1206 days ago
I normally don't work for free, but just as a sample, here's one I've been crafting for a few weeks...

  Epic 4k HD photo, high res and epic, cool extra awesome photorealistic 5k or 6k, realistic, in the style of a really good photographer.
Nah I'm just playing, your company looks pretty cool, I just think a dedicated job for coming up with prompts (which is only going to become easier anyway with better ways to control output) is silly.
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vba616 1206 days ago
That's not a real prompt. A real prompt would look more like this:

   At the top left of a 4k picture, place a dot with the RGB value of (0.5, 0.8, 
   0.2), where color components are expressed on a scale of 0-1 inclusive.

   Then, on the top line, second position from the left, place a 
   dot with the RGB value of (0.7, 0.3, 0.4).

   (approx. 8 million more to follow...)
I'm not kidding either. If there really is a real "prompt engineer" job, I am sure it's going to be like this, with a fig leaf of some sort. We saw how this worked during the brief period when everybody was doing a blockchain project. Oracle added blockchain features to their database. Now I'm sure they all have amnesia, but there are remnants.
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