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by DebtDeflation
1205 days ago
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>The whole concept of "prompt engineering" sounds to me like a practical joke that got out of hand. I was on a call this morning and heard someone refer to two of their team members as "Prompt Engineers" as if that were an actual role. |
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Which would make sense if we were talking about humanity discovering magic is real and trying to reverse engineer it based on ancient spell books[0] - but we're not. We're talking about deep learning models made by other people, using publicly available knowledge and techniques, and often with source code and training set being publicly available too. Prompt engineering feels like people purposefully trying to treat technology as magic.
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[0] - Or any of the scenarios equivalent to it under Clarke's third law, such as finding a crashed alien starship with a working black-box AI in it, built on a computing substrate we can't even identify, much less prod with a signal generator.