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Tech’s hottest new job: Prompt engineer
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#32I don't know how close AI is to replacing software engineers generally, but pretty sure this prompt engineer job isn't going to age well. And for extra irony, the better they do at their job, the greater will be the dependence upon the tech and the incentive to eliminate the middle-man (ie. the human).
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#33I 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 worked with a prompt engineer. They're basically a Natural Language Programmer. There is skill in doing the job well.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 normally don't work for free, but just as a sample, here's one I've been crafting for a few weeks...
Epic 4k HD photo, high res and epic, cool extra awesome photorealistic 5k or 6k, realistic, in the style of a really good photographer.
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#35We don't need a new job position, what we really need is a LLM to generate good prompts...
It has been amazing to watch the feedback loop with tools like Stable Diffusion where you see two types of strategy for solving problems of missing functionality. The first strategy is coming up with some long winded manual process involving disparate tools and several steps. The other is simply train a model to do what it is you want automatically. It has fast taught me that there is no competing with this new paradigm, and those capable of being able to solve their problems by building models will totally leapfrog those that have to do things the old way.
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#36Here's a prompt I just engineered - "Flash in the pan".
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#37Sounds fun until I realized much of this will be requests to use GPT for stuff it isn't meant to be used for. That would constantly trigger me.
That presumes we know what it's meant to be used for. I'm not sure that we do.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
Crypto market cap is still around ~1T USD
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
is this a college dorm metaphor? Haha
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#40I 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.
The naming might be flawed but it's like a batista I guess. You can spend a lot of money on the machine but without an expert to use it you will not get the best out of it.