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> And what path would you recommend to young people who want to become programmers. Machine learning? Prompt engineering? Become a software engineer and use th
by jstx1 4y ago
> And what path would you recommend to young people who want to become programmers. Machine learning? Prompt engineering?
Become a software engineer and use the best tools available to you to learn and do your job. This means LLMs and everything that was available before them like search, stackoverflow, documentation, forums, books, courses etc.
You don't need to work on machine learning in order to take advantage of it.
"Prompt engineer" is a bunch of bs, stop trying to make it happen. The language models are a useful tool, they're not your job. It's as stupid as someone claiming to be an "IDE engineer" or a "stackoverflow engineer".
- jaredsohn 4y ago>The language models are a useful tool, they're not your job. It's as stupid as someone claiming to be an "IDE engineer" or a "stackoverflow engineer". Agree if you're using ChatGPT to learn/generate/debug code for you. But if you use an LLM to generate, summarize, or classify text from within an app then I think it is a skill just like being able to work with the Stripe API. Since the API takes freeform text as input and the output varies based on how things are worded, there is some extra nuance needed to use it correctly but I think that's basically it. Also, there are chances that the skill will grow stale quickly as LLMs improve.
- comte7092 4y ago“Prompt engineer” is the new “Google fu master”