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I'm getting annoyed by using "prompt engineered" as a verb. Does this mean I'm finally old and bitter?

(Do we say we software engineered something?)



I think it’s meant to be engineering in the same sense as “social engineering”.


You're definitely old and bitter, welcome to it.

You CREATED something, and I like to think that creating things that I love and enjoy and that others can love and enjoy makes creating things worth it.


Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against using AI as an expression of creativity :)


Create? So I have created all that code I'm running on my site, yes is bad I know, but thank you very much! Such creative guy I was!


Not really since "prompt engineering" can be tossed in the same pile as "vibe coding." Just people coping with not developing the actual skills to produce the desired products.


Try getting a small model to do what you want quickly with high accuracy, high quality, etc, and using few tokens per request. You'll find out that prompt engineering is real and matters.


Couldn't care less. I don't need to know how to do literally everything. AI fills in my gaps and I'm a ton more productive.


I wouldn't bother trying to convince people who are upset that others have figured out a way to use LLMs. It's not logical.


No it means you can still discern what is BS.




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