[chipdart]

> To me it’s more like, if I have to carefully craft English language prompts in a conversational back-and-forth to get things done, then I am not really interested in doing that job, which sounds like being a manager or a teacher, and in practice just makes me feel totally dead, sad, and quite frankly bored.

You're showing a fundamental misunderstanding (or ignorance) of the whole problem domain.

For starters, you place an awful lot of emphasis on what you think is "carefully craft English language prompts". That makes as much sense as characterizing the job of a database engineer as "carefully crafting quasi-English language prompts". The language used is completely irrelevant, and being able to use in some circumstances something resembling natural language to build up context does not take away from it.

Any remotely honest and objective analysis of the topic would start from similar activities, and to start off the areas of work where Llama are being used. For image/video generation you need to look at graphics design, video editing, video production, illustrators, etc. These activities, by their own nature, are iterative and exploratory. Then for text you have the work of copywriters and editors, and even writers and essayisgs. The work is fundamentally iterative and exploratory. Then you have work like exploratory data analysis/statistics/data mining. Every aspect of that work is iterative, even the reporting part.