The job of the future?
On Dec 6, 2022, Scale AI founder Alexander announced he was hiring @goodside as their (First ever!) Promot Engineer.
A short🧵on Prompt Engineering for AI (with thanks to my Singapore Campus MBA @chicagobooth student Yuan Ji)
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RT @alexandr_wang: Today, @goodside joined @scale_AI as a Staff Prompt Engineer.
I am going to assert that Riley is the first Staff Prompt Engineer hired *anywhere*.
These large models…
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Who is @Goodside, you ask?
He became famous by posting "prompts" to ChatGTP and getting impressive (coding) results (and ribbing @elonmusk in many of them).
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RT @goodside: POV: You're a Senior Data Engineer at Twitter. Elon asks what you've done this week. You've done nothing.
Frantically, you open ChatGPT.
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To get the "right" answer from ChatGPT you need to ask questions in the right way.
Many people disappointed with ChatGPT simply do not know how to ask questions. @goodside knows how to ask for good code.
Here is ChatGPT itself explaining what prompt Engineering would be.
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"Prompt engineering" could also help us use ChatGPT effectively in non-coding contexts. Imagine I want to use AI for teaching. How do I do that?.
See these ideas from @emollick , who has been at it from the first day.
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RT @emollick: Some rules for making ChatGPT produce better writing:
1) Remember you are prompting an AI, not talking to a person
2) More specific & elaborate prompts work better
3) Ask it to take on a role or persona
4)…
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Is "prompt engineer" the job of 2023? Will this market develop below the n=1 above? Will it substitute coding?
@tim argues below in the @ft that that Prompt Engineers are just a feature of "early" ChatGPT and that as fast as the job is created it will be destroyed.
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It is hard to know if such a "prompt engineer job" has a future.
But the more I try out ChatGPT, and learn "engineering" it, the more certain I am that this will change everything in creative, "word manipulation" jobs. And the time scale will be years, not decades.
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