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Max Böck"prompt engineering" - what a sad job. So you spend all day trying to figure out the exact sequence of words that will get the computer to do the thing you want lol
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Zach Leatherman@mxbck max I am having an existential crisis here
@zachleat well MY words have semicolons and curly braces, that's fun I guess
Björn
Stu Robson@mxbck this is how I write CSS as well.
@sturobson "make website, cool looking, style of Lynn Fisher"
Marius Gundersen - mdg 🌻@mxbck and you just randomly try different combinations until it finally does what you want without actually understanding how it works?
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hotkey (Zoé)@mxbck Well, if you think about it, life is pretty much spending all day trying to figure out the exact sequence of words that will get the computer/other people/your pet to do the thing you want 🤔
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Javier Bonnemaison@mxbck hilarious (because it's true)
barsteward@mxbck And in the meantime, AI systems are spending all day trying to figure out the exact sequence of words that will get the human to do the thing they want lol.
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Jamie Booth@mxbck every time I hear "Prompt Engineer" I think of an engineer who is on time. Makes me chuckle.
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Dźwiedziu@mxbck
*what the client tells you they want.
*what the client tells you they want.
Data Sadist@mxbck
It's really not that different pasting what you're trying to into Google and copying from SO vs pasting into chatgpt
It's really not that different pasting what you're trying to into Google and copying from SO vs pasting into chatgpt
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Magnesium@mxbck if it helps ( and I know it doesn't), they only need to think for about 15 minutes to come up with truely creative images instead of all day
nikunjshah@mxbck I think its time for me to go cry in the corner as I contemplate my existence...
Vincent Janelle@mxbck proompt engineering
Patrick Van Oosterwijck@mxbck Prompt engineering is the dystopian version of programming. Instead of having a clearly specified language, the human is expected to continually adapt to how the model may have changed. That is sooooo much better. 😂
Daniel Rotter@mxbck But it takes all the fun out of discussing coding styles...
grob (teeth era) 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@mxbck at least you can skip the decades long curing period for software to rot until fixing it becomes basically alchemy. Yay, go AI. Not.
Mettie 👁 [Yaseenist]@mxbck I personally don't think "prompt engineer" is a job title that is here to stay. These silver bullet solutions are always created by people who have never really worked in the field and don't understand the complexity of the job.
That being said, we should just all get a UBI at this point and let companies become ChatGPT whisperers
That being said, we should just all get a UBI at this point and let companies become ChatGPT whisperers
Zelphir Kaltstahl@mxbck I think a difference is, that in programming languages there is a mostly predictable behavior of parts/implementation of concepts. With prompts, one always simply has to hope, that something good will be returned. I think it is different from programming in this way. Of course using prompts one can get code and then look over that code and possibly improve it, to actually get something predictable in the end. But that is using prompts on a higher level than programming.
aismallard (relocated!)@mxbck One is like herding cats, the other is like designing a bridge. Sure they both involve work but one is far more enjoyable and fulfilling.