[fnordpiglet]

At some level I agree that the prompt engineering done today to break ChatGPT guard rails are things that barely rise to “interesting hack” levels, but I think that manipulating language to induce specific behavior by an LLM is a powerful skill, and requires a very facile understanding of language in the semantic context of the training corpus. By varying the tone, vocabulary, style, pacing, and obviously the semantics of the original inducing language you can dramatically change the behavior of the LLM. This is less about prompt engineering and being a masterful manipulator of language - and why I don’t fear that LLMs make language skill irrelevant. Those with the most language skill will produce the most compelling and tailored LLM output for a purpose.