> I realize some folks are salty they paid a ton of money for the idea that a piece of paper gives them some sort of prestige.
Actually the paper does, but my issue is not papers, rather knowledge. The level of knowledge needed for something to be called engineering
And I have noticed your answers relate prompt engineering to software engineering/programming questions. But if you look at that OpenAI doc, even asking to summarise an article is prompt engineering.
> A great deal of the engineers that built the modern internet never got a formal degree. But they did get something better: real practical experience attained via tinkering.
We have a lot of carpenters, builders, mechanics with no formal education that we call Engineers in our everyday life without any qualm because of their knowledge and experience. Don't look at it only from the lens of software engineering.
I still maintain prompting an AI model doesn't need to be called engineering.
If you are a developer doing it through an API or whichever way, you still doing whatever you've been doing before prompting entered the chat.
Maybe the term will be justified in the future.
Side Note: This conversation led me to Wikipedia (noticed some search results along the way). This prompt business is already lit, I shouldn't have started it
Actually the paper does, but my issue is not papers, rather knowledge. The level of knowledge needed for something to be called engineering
And I have noticed your answers relate prompt engineering to software engineering/programming questions. But if you look at that OpenAI doc, even asking to summarise an article is prompt engineering.
> A great deal of the engineers that built the modern internet never got a formal degree. But they did get something better: real practical experience attained via tinkering.
We have a lot of carpenters, builders, mechanics with no formal education that we call Engineers in our everyday life without any qualm because of their knowledge and experience. Don't look at it only from the lens of software engineering.
I still maintain prompting an AI model doesn't need to be called engineering.
If you are a developer doing it through an API or whichever way, you still doing whatever you've been doing before prompting entered the chat.
Maybe the term will be justified in the future.
Side Note: This conversation led me to Wikipedia (noticed some search results along the way). This prompt business is already lit, I shouldn't have started it