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Would that be similar to a "prompt engineer" role?

I don't know why but I can't help but feel this role is going to exist. "Senior Prompt Engineer", "Principal Prompt Engineer", etc. The future's wild.

As a programmer, it's my precise job description to "engineer google search terms for information I need."

Think people who think this is a job will be deluding themselves, eventually the magic of getting a good image or a bad image will just be a set of known good styles it generates at the start that you can then pick and choose from in the backend invisible to the actual thing you type. Same way how Dall-e 2 solves it's diversity issues.

The goal of OpenAI isn't to build a whole new industry of AI Artists, it's to make the AWS of creativity, which means it has to be so simple that you don't even need anyone who can write a good sentence. Just has to get good results from whatever they type.

Ah, yes, because AWS famously didn't build a whole new industry of engineers

Help me out. What's a "prompt engineer?" It seems like a very good title for the way we will be using AIs in the future. Many of these AIs will need just the right prompt (question?) to get the info we need. I like the title.

People selling their prompts on PromptBase.com might think of themselves as prompt engineers...

Make sure to check PromptOverflow.com if you get stuck.

$p$g

It's basically a way in which already delusional people are further deluding themselves that writing a part of a sentence while interacting with a black box is engineering.

Engineering is full of highly specialized disciplines. I met radio antenna engineers who only ever worked on one single piece of test equipment their entire working career and who used it to watch a signal bounce while they moved around pieces of copper tape on a PCB. That's literally all they did, and they didn't know what a spectrum analyzer or any other related tool was.

You'll find these specialized positions working with AI as well soon.

We can deride it from not being "traditional" engineering, but engineering as defined as "doing the best you can with tools you have", certainly allows for a prompt engineer to be defined..

>engineering as defined as "doing the best you can with tools you have"

This is not a definition of engineering anyone sane holds. It's so broad it can be used to define a floor cleaner as an engineer (or, if you want higher tech involved, a floor cleaner with a roomba).

This is not logic, this is travesty.

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