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"Prompt Engineering," the bullshit "job" that emerged when LLMs took off, is already going extinct (archive.is)
submitted 21 hours ago by BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
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Now being able to correctly pray to the God in Silicon is just part of the standard job description, or you can build your own digital Ourobouros by using "AI" to design your prompts for you.

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[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 17 points 19 hours ago

Probably worth noting that the onetime prompt engineers were probably working and will return to bullshit jobs, so maybe the trend was a brief scramble for relevance that would have succeeded were it not for the fact that the producers of these tools need the illusion of simplicity and usability to keep their own grifts afloat.