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I’m between jobs, with 27 years in IT. I’ve worked every PC related job from Computer Janitor to Helpdesk to System/Database/Network Engineer & Administrator. I hate coding with a passion and it’s been the 2nd most impactful factor in my career. It’s like purposely trying to talk wrong. Perfectly. My buddy suggested that I take my ability to translate complex subjects into simple explanations would make me good as an AI Prompt Engineer. However, on SA it seems to be the butt of a joke. What am I missing here? Anyone have a better idea?
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Apr 13, 2024 00:37
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I mean, the short answer is nobody is going to give you a job just writing prompts for AIs, or at least not one that pays decently. Do a search for "Prompt Engineer" or "AI Engineer" postings on your preferred job search site: there aren't actually that many of them, and the ones that are there generally require a data science background, which means you are not going to be able to escape from coding. You are also likely to be out of a job if it turns out everyone saying AI is a bubble is right and it pops, so that's a consideration.
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Apr 13, 2024 01:50
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You should take out a (preferably large) loan to survive on while pursuing your dreams as a prompt engineer, it will definitely go really well and you'll pay back the loan in no time with your expert prompt writing skills, which are in high demand because of all the people who call themselves prompt engineers (it indicates a booming market). You can do it OP, and please report back with your amazing success so we can live vicariously through you! Edit: seriously tho no one actually wants to pay someone to write a prompt. If they're so keen on LLMs they'd just ask chatGPT to write the prompt for them. It's a fictitious job that people named to make themselves seem more legitimate, like calling yourself a "dream engineer" when you just like trying to set up your friends on bad blind dates.
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Apr 13, 2024 02:31
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Fair enough, thanks for not being complete assholes.
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Apr 13, 2024 04:04
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Have you considered something developer adjacent like Technical Program Manager? The ability to learn, deal with ambiguity, explain things clearly so that teams can align around them, etc are key skills for the role. I was a developer for 10 years, and while I didn't hate coding it was never a pleasure or passion for me like it is for many others. Which meant that I naturally took on a lot of responsibilities for organizing the team, etc. A couple of years ago I switched to a TPM role which I'm much better at than I ever was as a developer because it lets me leverage the other skills I acquired without coding being the main focus of the job.
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Apr 13, 2024 10:10
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https://spectrum.ieee.org/prompt-engineering-is-dead Seemed relevant to the question -- it does seem like this will be a thing, but it will involve a lot of coding still
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May 8, 2024 19:20
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It was never alive. 'Prompt Engineer' is something assholes tried to make into a prestige title because they got roundly laughed out of the room claiming they were artists for writing half-rear end google search terms to feed an LLM.
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May 10, 2024 03:29
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Isn't a thing. Won't be a thing. This is something AI tech bros made up to convince themselves and others that AI is totally going to be able to do magic that it really really can't
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I ride bikes all day posted:I’m between jobs, with 27 years in IT. I’ve worked every PC related job from Computer Janitor to Helpdesk to System/Database/Network Engineer & Administrator. I hate coding with a passion and it’s been the 2nd most impactful factor in my career. It’s like purposely trying to talk wrong. Perfectly. You don't particularly need to be able to translte complex subject into simple explainations for talking to chatGPT*: you need it to talk to -humans-. The way you become a "prompt engineer" is simply by using chatGPT within the responsibilities of an existing job like nobody hires for "prompt engineering" because the skillset is pretty different for using A.I for different things like I at my job have used chatGPT to generate boilerPlate code/configs, but I would have no clue wtf to do is someone ask me to generate an art piece, I do it and it looks off/requires editing Typo fucked around with this message at 21:01 on May 10, 2024 |
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May 10, 2024 20:54
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Canine Blues Arooo posted:
the current obessession with prompting reminds me of that sci-fi story where there's a library containing books which contains every possible permutation of all English letters, and people would go mad trying to find the one book that tells you the ultimate truth to the universe like people are convinced if they just come up with the exact right phrase magic will happen quote:Isn't a thing. Won't be a thing. for the exact same reason why bitcoins are a thing just because it's dumb doesn't mean people with money won't throw money at it Typo fucked around with this message at 21:03 on May 10, 2024 |
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May 10, 2024 21:00
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https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1780368652451365100
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May 10, 2024 22:45
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Only natural that he would be this confused. After all, he's only working from second-hand data
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May 11, 2024 00:59
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i think the main reason is because someone might ask what you do for a living and then you'll say "i'm a prompt engineer" and things will quite likely go downhill from there
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May 13, 2024 01:53
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Earwicker posted:i think the main reason is because someone might ask what you do for a living and then you'll say "i'm a prompt engineer" and things will quite likely go downhill from there If you ever say "I'm a prompt engineer" and your next sentence isn't "no poo poo I'm really fast" what the gently caress are you really doing?"
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May 13, 2024 03:00
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Typo posted:the current obessession with prompting reminds me of that sci-fi story where there's a library containing books which contains every possible permutation of all English letters, and people would go mad trying to find the one book that tells you the ultimate truth to the universe Bitcoin exists because it's a convenient way to: • Launder a shitload of money • Buy drugs • Transact for Illegal poo poo And it's also become a techbro means of 'store of wealth', but that is not the reason it is where it is today. Bitcoin is the logistics network of the black market and it's techbro-adjacency is not the driving force for it's value. If 'prompt engineering' shows up anywhere, at all, as a real paid position - I'm going to guess it's somewhere in the porn industry, and it's probably also going to be part of a skillset that includes baking loras, models, etc. As a role in any other business - no chance at all.
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May 14, 2024 02:22
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I don't know, I think it's important to be on time
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lol
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