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bingemaker
8 days ago
I still believe in writing good prompts or good instructions. Bad prompts can sometimes blow up the bill. A poorly written spec can waste a lot of tokens
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lukan
8 days ago
Definitely. But the special knowledge how to talk to a certain model is usually not worth it.
Being able to write clear, always is.
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thunky
8 days ago
Sure but lets not pretend this is engineering.
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dymk
7 days ago
Then let's not pretend what software engineers have been doing for the last 50 years is engineering, either. But what else would you call it?
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thunky
7 days ago
I agree, which is why I prefer to say software
developer
rather than
engineer
.
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Being able to write clear, always is.