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Is prompt engineering really a job that will emerge with A.I? (lemmy.world)

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On the discussion of job replacement due to A.I, the term "prompt engineer" pops up frequently when mentioning new jobs that will arise due to it.

Isn't prompt engineering just typing questions? How is it difficult enough for it to be a desired job in the market?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Relevant article: https://lemmy.ml/post/12857742

Prompt engineering is a thing, but I wouldn't say it's much of a job title. There are people doing it: optimizing system prompts, preprocessing and postprocessing, llms are just one piece of a complex pipeline and someone has to build all that. Prompt engineering is part the boot strapping for making better llms but this work is largely being done by data scientists who are on the forefront of understanding how AI works.

So is prompt engineering just typing questions? IDK. Who knows what those people mean when they say that but whatever it's called there is a specialized field around improving AI tech and prompt engineering is certainly a part.