JemmyShocked to hear ‘prompt engineer’ is not a real job
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Who would have known? Asking AI things was never a real job?!
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🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦It was pretty obvious that this would never be a real job given that degenerative AIs change the prompting systems more often than healthy normal people (so, you know, not degenerative AI freaks) change their underwear.
I am a prompt engineer, I show up to work on time
The audacity of using the word "engineer" is galling enough.
This article also does not provide any proof that prompt engineer was not a real job.
It does a pretty poor job explaining itself, at all. Ironically, it probably would have behooved the author to have used an AI to proofread this.
This is a full paragraph from the article. What the fuck is this trying to say? Who is "they"? Literally no questions were answered by this article.
maybe "they" refers to those who have most to gain from all the ai bullshit. So likely executives in chatgpt for example. If the writers named something directly it could leave them open for lawsuit if things go badly
So far, I don't think the author is capable of writing something coherent enough to be considered libel.
How do you prove a negative?
I mean, a few months back somebody posted a linkedin, mad because they were looking for a prompt engineer, so apparently it is a real job.
Sounds like a project manager that can talk to engineers....
Well, it IS linkedin, so it's mostly just corpos bullshitting each other anyway.
I have people skills!
A multimeter on DC.
In this case? Pretty easily with the right data. Though I think an opinion poll would be more interesting
By using the definition of the word or asking people for their opinion
It is a real job. You don't make 6 figures doing it. There are multiple websites: outlier.ai, dataannotation.tech, joinstellar.ai that pay people to train LLMs. Usually for $20-$40 /hour.
Training is not prompting
Real or not, I still say not calling it "AI Wrangler" is a major miss...
There are already tools and other AI to write the prompt for you. The prompt engineer is automated out of their job.
Maybe not just prompt engineer, but that skill will be required among other to effectively utilize many AI tools since the low-code/no-code capabilities are not quite there yet.