Shocked to hear ‘prompt engineer’ is not a real job (pivot-to-ai.com)
from riot@slrpnk.net to technology@lemmy.world on 09 May 20:07
https://slrpnk.net/post/21943842

Who would have known? Asking AI things was never a real job?!

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Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 09 May 20:28 next collapse

This article also does not provide any proof that prompt engineer was not a real job.

A_norny_mousse@feddit.org on 09 May 20:58 next collapse

How do you prove a negative?

_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 09 May 21:15 next collapse

I mean, a few months back somebody posted a linkedin, mad because they were looking for a prompt engineer, so apparently it is a real job.

towerful@programming.dev on 09 May 21:21 collapse

Sounds like a project manager that can talk to engineers…

_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 09 May 21:36 next collapse

Well, it IS linkedin, so it’s mostly just corpos bullshitting each other anyway.

_druid@sh.itjust.works on 09 May 22:20 collapse

I have people skills!

tdawg@lemmy.world on 09 May 21:36 next collapse

In this case? Pretty easily with the right data. Though I think an opinion poll would be more interesting

LumpyPancakes@lemm.ee on 09 May 22:23 next collapse

A multimeter on DC.

RandomVideos@programming.dev on 10 May 11:32 collapse

By using the definition of the word or asking people for their opinion

Chozo@fedia.io on 09 May 21:38 next collapse

It does a pretty poor job explaining itself, at all. Ironically, it probably would have behooved the author to have used an AI to proofread this.

The hype did not magic the jobs into existence. Because this was all part of marketing chatbots to the enterprise. They wanted companies to believe in the magic of chatbots.

This is a full paragraph from the article. What the fuck is this trying to say? Who is "they"? Literally no questions were answered by this article.

reksas@sopuli.xyz on 10 May 12:00 collapse

maybe “they” refers to those who have most to gain from all the ai bullshit. So likely executives in chatgpt for example. If the writers named something directly it could leave them open for lawsuit if things go badly

Chozo@fedia.io on 10 May 12:37 collapse

If the writers named something directly it could leave them open for lawsuit if things go badly

So far, I don't think the author is capable of writing something coherent enough to be considered libel.

AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world on 10 May 00:09 collapse

It is a real job. You don’t make 6 figures doing it. There are multiple websites: outlier.ai, dataannotation.tech, joinstellar.ai that pay people to train LLMs. Usually for $20-$40 /hour.

4am@lemm.ee on 10 May 01:18 collapse

Training is not prompting

latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 09 May 21:25 next collapse

Real or not, I still say not calling it “AI Wrangler” is a major miss…

dhork@lemmy.world on 09 May 21:47 next collapse

I am a prompt engineer, I show up to work on time

WanderingThoughts@europe.pub on 09 May 22:26 next collapse

There are already tools and other AI to write the prompt for you. The prompt engineer is automated out of their job.

mPony@kbin.earth on 10 May 00:07 next collapse

The audacity of using the word "engineer" is galling enough.

venusaur@lemmy.world on 10 May 16:36 collapse

Maybe not just prompt engineer, but that skill will be required among other to effectively utilize many AI tools since the low-code/no-code capabilities are not quite there yet.