We are teaching programmers how to prompt engineer instead of programming…
What a world we live in.
What a world we live in.
Whether its true or not it is besides the point - its getting kind of boring and it seems to be drowning everything else. It feels at least from the outside like a profession that used to require intelligence/skill, and something creative problem solving just went downhill fast. The anti-SWE crowd (e.g VC's, AI devs, CEO's, etc) seems to be winning the argument at the moment as to what the future will bring in these forums. Every podcast I hear its always software engineering that is mentioned as the industry to be disrupted away.
Who would of thought the job of the future only 5 years ago would be the first to go? Hope I'm wrong, but it seems the AI crowd's main target atm.
Regardless, I think that programmers are quite well-suited to the methods described in the article, but only in the same way that programmers are generally better at Googling things than the average person; they can imagine what the system needs to see in order to produce the result they want even if that isn't necessarily a natural description of their problem.
When I say that your native language is now a programming language, I mean that you are now the Project Manager, and the code is generated automatically. But because the code is auto-generated, the focus shifts towards the “prompt” as the first and potentially only step in generating code.