‘AI is already eating its own’: Prompt engineering is quickly going extinct

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• VagueAnodyneComments@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  wow so LLMs were just another dangerous anti-labor fad huh

  if only this had been completely obvious to anyone who actually reads about how models work since a decade ago

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• fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hiring someone who’s a “prompt engineer” is like hiring someone who says they’re good at googling.

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  • GaMEChld@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The majority of people I’ve worked with are dog shit at looking up information. I’d be happy with “good at googling.”

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    • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I used to be good at googling. But then Google changed what googling did.

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  • thiseggowaffles@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean… Being good at Googling is a pretty necessary prerequisite to working in IT. It’s like a sizeable portion of the job.

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• Letstakealook@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Prompt engineering.” 🤣

  “AI” really brings out the goofies, and their even goofier targets lap it up.

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• figjam@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Now AI can write the prompts…

  WHY

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• Jayjader@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Which raises a larger question: Did prompt engineering roles ever truly exist?

  All experts interviewed for this piece were skeptical. The market itself was real enough: The North American prompt engineering market was valued at $75.5 million in 2023, with a compound annual growth rate of 32.8%. But whether that translated into formally titled roles is another matter.

  … How can the market be “real enough” if we can’t tell if any jobs actually existed? Maybe I just don’t know enough about economics.

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• Asetru@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Today, strong AI prompting is simply an expected skill, not a stand-alone role.

  If a company tells me they expect me to be good at writing prompts at least I know I can dodge that bullet and just never ever work there. Nice.

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