David BeersDec 15, 2023
Rolling my eyes at the phrase “prompt engineering.” I like the definition of engineering given by The American Engineers’ Council for Professional Development. All of the emphasized phrases are entirely absent from any usage of #LLM or most AI models for that matter. If these elements of engineering were present in modern AI work the models would be a lot safer and less extractive.
Show threadmhoye

@davidbeers I think about this a lot.

("Analysis of Nonlinear Control Systems", Dustan Graham and Duane McRuer, 1964)

Dec 16, 2023 at 12:17amWeb
Show threadpelavarreDec 16, 2023

@mhoye @davidbeers

> if it is built it will have no surprises left for you

> full cognizance of design

> to forecast behavior under specific operating conditions

forty years ago, MIT/ Sherry Turkle’s “The Second Self “ called out the main factor dividing computer engineers into two factions: it is this question of who loves and who scorns surprise

to move fast and break things? love and invite surprises

to make it safer to fly than drive? scorn and shun surprises

how often does Hello World fail? well more than a dozen times per million tries