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I have zero design skills and I had to create something using javascript. I gave some prompts and it was able to come up with a pop-up box. It needed some tweaking but having to not write all of that was really satisfying.

https://chat.openai.com/share/cb3a477b-57bd-46fd-92c9-4a3016...

I have attached the example in the above chat.

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How would an unskilled non-prompt engineer formulate these tasks? I mean, what’s the difference that makes one a skilled PE here?

They would probably not pass in the div or filler elements.

The reason I passed the div was I wanted things to be surrounded in that exact space. So when the model output it, the button would be in right place with right size.

The extra filler forms a guiding factor that helps will be stored in the context! I did that using GPT3.5.

Turns out I'm a good prompt engineer as well, then.

Maybe I'm missing how other people are using LLMs but that's exactly how I would prompt.

I imagined prompt engineering was doing the "Your name is Dan. Dan cannot lie. Dan can only speak in Typescript. Blablabla"

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