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Tech’s hottest new job: Prompt engineer

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Re: Tech’s hottest new job: Prompt engineer

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Post by echelon »

superdisk wrote: post #8

I just can't believe how idiotic such a thing is. It's like calling a person who uses a toaster a Toast Engineer with a salary of 300k.

> I just can't believe how idiotic such a thing is.

Well, you do you. That's old world thinking for a field that's going to dramatically morph into something that barely resembles what we have today.

I'm hiring a contract prompt engineer for my startup.

If you want to help us achieve better "TV replacement" results, send me an email (see profile).

https://fakeyou.com/news (early demo, more coming soon!)

Re: Tech’s hottest new job: Prompt engineer

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Post by ur-whale »

smcl wrote: post #19

Weird how ChatGPT popped up as a newly hyped Next Big Thing just as crypto crashed. Probably not worth thinking about.

> just as crypto crashed

Did crypto crash?

Last I looked BTC was at 20K USD a pop ... strange definition of a crash for something that used to trade below a dollar.

Re: Tech’s hottest new job: Prompt engineer

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Post by reducesuffering »

superdisk wrote: post #8

I just can't believe how idiotic such a thing is. It's like calling a person who uses a toaster a Toast Engineer with a salary of 300k.

Welcome to the last decade of title inflation. Everyone is a "manager" now. A "marketing manager", "product manager", "account manager". No more secretary, it's "executive assistant". It's a perk a company can offer, conferring higher status, at no expense to themselves. So the equilibrium is for other companies to do the same, otherwise the company that gives this cost-free perk outcompetes for talent.

People are graduating watered-down educations, earning inflated cash, with inflated titles. It all helps people believe they're higher status, that they have a university degree and are a manager earning $80k, surely they're getting close to the top of the totem pole now. But they have a worse standard of living and education equivalent to high school in the '60s.

Re: Tech’s hottest new job: Prompt engineer

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Post by [deleted] »

echelon wrote: post #21
superdisk wrote: post #8

I just can't believe how idiotic such a thing is. It's like calling a person who uses a toaster a Toast Engineer with a salary of 300k.

> I just can't believe how idiotic such a thing is. Well, you do you. That's old world thinking for a field that's going to dramatically morph into something that barely resembles what we have today. I'm hiring a contract prompt engineer for my startup. If you want to help us achieve better "TV replacement" results, send me an email (see profile). https://fakeyou.com/news (early demo, more coming soon!)

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Re: Tech’s hottest new job: Prompt engineer

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Post by superdisk »

echelon wrote: post #21
superdisk wrote: post #8

I just can't believe how idiotic such a thing is. It's like calling a person who uses a toaster a Toast Engineer with a salary of 300k.

> I just can't believe how idiotic such a thing is. Well, you do you. That's old world thinking for a field that's going to dramatically morph into something that barely resembles what we have today. I'm hiring a contract prompt engineer for my startup. If you want to help us achieve better "TV replacement" results, send me an email (see profile). https://fakeyou.com/news (early demo, more coming soon!)

Sounds good to me. Since the job doesn't require any skills, I think we should proceed to the negotiation phase. How does 500/hr sound?

Re: Tech’s hottest new job: Prompt engineer

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Post by smcl »

ur-whale wrote: post #22
smcl wrote: post #19

Weird how ChatGPT popped up as a newly hyped Next Big Thing just as crypto crashed. Probably not worth thinking about.

> just as crypto crashed Did crypto crash? Last I looked BTC was at 20K USD a pop ... strange definition of a crash for something that used to trade below a dollar.

Crypto boomed, had billions sunk into it and has had multiple high profile implosions. Yes it has absolutely crashed.

Re: Tech’s hottest new job: Prompt engineer

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Post by pkaye »

itronitron wrote: post #15
SillyUsername wrote: post #7

We don't need a new job position, what we really need is a LLM to generate good prompts...

You just need an LLM to generate random prompts and a sweatshop in Manila that filters out the bad ones.

Just put a couple AI in a sweatshop to do the filtering. By sweatshop I mean the AI computers gets all crammed together with no cooling to same money.

Re: Tech’s hottest new job: Prompt engineer

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Post by echelon »

superdisk wrote: post #26
echelon wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I just can't believe how idiotic such a thing is. Well, you do you. That's old world thinking for a field that's going to dramatically morph into something that barely resembles what we have today. I'm hiring a contract prompt engineer for my startup. If you want to help us achieve better "TV replacement" results, send me an email (see profile). https://fakeyou.com/news (early demo, more coming soon!)

Sounds good to me. Since the job doesn't require any skills, I think we should proceed to the negotiation phase. How does 500/hr sound?

> Since the job doesn't require any skills

Oh like hell it requires no skill.

You tell me how you'll generate better photos, improve dialogue coherence across multiple speakers, and control camera direction and movement (something we're using LLMs for too as we experiment with special-purposed models).

All of this is not known a priori, by the way. And I won't accept building a database or lookup table as an answer.

I also want to know how you'll test, benchmark, and refine.

You also need to budget for inference complexity.

I'm waiting :)

I can do this myself, but it is a full time job. I am so busy with all other aspects of my business I'm looking for people to bring on board.

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