Prompt engineer : The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete

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• BCOVertigo@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “New York Life all said they’ve never hired prompt engineers, but instead found that—to the extent better prompting skills are needed—it was an expertise that all existing employees could be trained on.”

  Are you telling me that the jobs invented to support a bullshit technology that lies are themselves ALSO bullshit lies?

  How could this happen??

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  • brendansimms@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    screw NewYorkLife, but LLM’s are definitely not bullshit technology. Some amount of skill in so-called ‘prompt-engineering’ makes a huge difference in using LLMs as the tool that they are. I think the big mistake people are making is using it like a search engine. I use it all the time (in a scientific field) but never in a capacity where it can ‘lie’ to me. It’s a very effective ‘assistant’ in both [simple] coding tasks and data analysis/management.

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    • turtlesareneat@discuss.online ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The gap between expected behavior and behavior is narrowing each iteration, plus people are starting to understand the limitations a bit better. The things AI does well you’re talking about are being parceled off as AI Agents for monetization and don’t require additional staff to oversee, they’re turnkey solutions.

      The headline here is that AI is costing us jobs but not replacing them. And if you’re concerned that AI is a bubble, imagine what that’ll mean when it blows and these companies start faltering and being purchased. This is all mindless disruption with no foresight.

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• uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No shit.

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• Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  prompt engineer

  They were paying people to fucking ask it questions? A professional Google searcher?

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  • laranis@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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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    • andallthat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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”.

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    • brendansimms@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yay!

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• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Pretty sure any kid writing a paper for school does this.

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• beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  archive.ph/eMXwn

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