To be fair, there are tricks to it just like there are tricks for getting better Google results. But “prompt engineering” isn’t a fucking career.
It is evidence of a leadership team that is just clueless.
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Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 1 day ago
prompt engineer
They were paying people to fucking ask it questions? A professional Google searcher?
laranis@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
andallthat@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
prompt engineering does require skills. It’s just that, rightly or not, they are now seen by companies as foundational skills for a lot of jobs and worth investing in training for most employees (rather than hiring a team of prompt specialists).
Like if you work in certain roles you need to have good knowledge of spreadsheet software, you don’t go to your company’s “Excel guru”.
brendansimms@lemmy.world 1 day ago
exactly this - SEO (search engine optimization) is huge, just like “prompt engineering” is extremely valuable - and its quite different from SEO. I wouldnt think either is a full-time position but, but learning to effectively prompt and use LLM’s is definitely a skill.
taladar@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
In my experience SEO is largely bullshit too and the rest is so simple you could summarize it on maybe two regular pages of paper and actually documented on pages that the search engines publish themselves (stuff like duplicate content, stable URLs, which status codes to use when,…).
WindyRebel@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Former SEO here.
Content management side of SEO is sort of bullshit, yes. However, I saved an entire website from complete deindexing because I was able to determine Google was rendering the page differently than a user and all they saw was a giant blank overlay because of the way the cookie privacy was implemented. Ain’t no web developers that I know who are looking into that shit!
Also, figuring out sitewide implementation of pages and usability is big. Basically, technical SEO is a big damn deal and it can go hand in hand with general content creation.
brendansimms@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I agree on both counts - honestly, a lot of companies are probably just posting job openings (that will purposefully remain vacant) with titles like AI Prompt Engineer and SEO Specialist to help boost shareholder confidence. I think I’m just fighting against the idea that LLMs should be used like a search engine - i know you didnt suggest that but I’ve been reading a lot recently about ‘ChatGPT lies!’ when in reality people are wrongly using a pattern recognition system like its a search engine.
MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m in IT. A lot of my job is Googling the answer, but I have to know what to ask and sift through what to look for that most employees won’t know.
A photographer will know what to input better than the average Joe to get a better photographic image out of ChatGPT by giving F-stops/aperture, shutter speed, ISO, lenses, bokeh/depth of field, rule of thirds, etc.
But yes… we’re getting closer and closer to George Jetson’s job of pushing one button and calling it a day.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
They were paying people to try to make them answer the questions correctly because getting an LLM to do what you want it to was excruciatingly difficult just a few years back (and kinda still is).
Especially when what most companies want (factual, accurate, intelligent answers to difficult tasks or questions) is not something LLMs are actually made for (slapping words together using probability in a way that makes a reader to think it might have been written by a human).
But yes. Professional google searcher, just from back in very early 2000’s when there were TV quiz shows about people being given a question and trying to find the answer as fast as possible. as it was an actual skill.