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by DrewADesign 1174 days ago
Most people aren't worried about being a prompt engineer-- they're worried about being a Doordash driver if it turns out that one prompt engineer can replace many professional, well-paid people in their industry. That's pretty rational.
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TeMPOraL 1174 days ago
> being a Doordash driver

If that job will even be available. The other day my sister sent me a photo of a little food delivery robot she spotted on the streets[0], and mind you, we're not living in Silicon Valley, but in Poland.

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[0] - https://www.deliverycouple.com/ - based on the markings on that robot, its these people.

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anonzzzies 1174 days ago
There is not much to prompt engineer; the obvious trivial thing that is already happening and will make the glorious job of prompt ‘engineer’ completely redundant is AI doing the ‘engineering’ for you. One person (or AI in the future; this is already possible now for humans and gpt though) that the AI has been trained to ‘know’ and work with will blurb things into a mic and the AI will instruct millions of brains to whatever the ‘boss’ wants, translating his mumbling into actionable user and system prompts. There won’t be prompt ‘engineers’ for long.
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DrewADesign 1174 days ago
I think you drastically underestimate the intellectual component of other people's work behind the tools they use to perform it.
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tekknik 1174 days ago
In some industries sure, in many others it’s just mindless repetition. The argument is that AI is to free up their time so they can do more important things. Regardless, less demand means less wages across the board. Those that are intelectuales capable of doing more will look to the higher paying jobs once AI automates theirs away.
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DrewADesign 1173 days ago
That those jobs exist and might be automated doesn't negate the existence of all the others. One selfish benefit I see in this will be the hubris of my fellow software developers being taken down a few hundred notches when the market for commodity software development collapses.
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tekknik 1174 days ago
Self driving cars and drones are pretty close, door dash driver won’t be an option much longer either.
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