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by jafitc 927 days ago
On a constructive note, these things will trickle down into the models. Bing for example already does "thinking" step that is hidden from the user.

Also see this quote from Ethan Mollick on twitter:

> I have a strong suspicion that “prompt engineering” is not going to be a big deal in the long-term & prompt engineer is not the job of the future

> AI gets easier. You can already see in Midjourney how basic prompts went from complex in v3 to easy in v4. Same with ChatGPT to Bing.

https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1627804798224580608?lang...
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mherdeg 927 days ago
Gosh I think I'll be a little sad about that future? I'm reminded of how we used to know really fun tricks for squeezing another bit of performance out of our assembly code -- "The Story of Mel" -- and then compilers started doing all the work for us.

The past year or so of published literature on LLMs has been kind of hilarious because there is a substantial chunk of stuff whose contribution is "putting this extra English sentence into the input produces measurably better output".

It's like watching alchemists puzzle out chemistry, or like watching wizards fill their spellbooks. What a cool time.

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jafitc 927 days ago
Imagine an assembly that you didn’t make, but was passed down to you by aliens.

Now we have to tinker with it to learn instead of read Textbooks

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