[cardosof]

I too don't like to use the title Engineer lightly, but what would be a good title for someone who's job is building and maintaining chains of prompts that perform X,Y,Z in a system? Developer? The comparison with search engines is naive since those are made for end users and LLMs are a piece of software that are a part of a bigger solution.

[thunky]

Search engines can be used by anything, not just end users. And ChatGPT can be used by end users. So I don't see that much of a difference.

If I build and maintain chains of Google's APIs calls to develop an application that performs X, Y, and Z then I would say that I'm an "application developer", not a "Google API engineer". I mean I assume there is going to more to the application than just a pile of API calls.

So maybe a good name for this course would be "Building applications using Large Language Models", which is actually how the course is described in the intro.

[zamnos]

Application developers output applications, but somehow "essay developer" or "email developer" doesn't have the right feel to it. Maybe "GPT-assisted copywriter"? or for a more specalizied role, "GPT-assisted training developer"?

Or maybe it's just a modern expected skill, and those who choose not to incorporate it in their workflow are left to struggle to keep up, just like if someone refused to use Google in 2001. After all, it's not like I list Google-fu in the skills section of my resume, despite that being a skill I use every day and find indispensable.

[thunky]

> Or maybe it's just a modern expected skill

Yeah I agree with this. The tool is not the product or profession.