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by charlie0 814 days ago
Prompt engineering along with being able to describe problems exceptionally well will become important.

Just the other day I needed to write a complex script using a library I knew very little about. I knew "what" I wanted to do and that the library could solve the issue, but did not know enough about the lib to to solve it. I wrote pseudo-code and ChatGPT was able to generate a working script on the first shot.

I predict more of our work will shift towards describing problems well and knowing less specifics about certain libraries.

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My experience has been... if you are competent enough to write a good prompt, you were probably good enough to write the code to being with. LLM copilots simply make that writing faster by 1.5x to 2x
That’s why they teach you to write pseudo code before code in bootcamps.
With the same or higher ratio of bugs?
> Prompt engineering along with being able to describe problems exceptionally well will become important.

Sounds like writing code

The bubble has got to burst eventually. I just hope I'm retired by then