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Just like any position, it's not hard to find X, but hard to find good X'ers. Same is true for developers, there are way more developers than demanded, but what
by capableweb 4y ago
Just like any position, it's not hard to find X, but hard to find good X'ers. Same is true for developers, there are way more developers than demanded, but what's hard is finding good developers, not just any developer. Same is true for most professions that doesn't rely on certificates and alike (think "real" engineering, like engineering for construction and such).
- minimaxir 4y agoQuoting myself from the post I linked above: as a machine learning engineer, I can attest that the only reasons machine learning engineers are good at prompt engineering are a) years of practice and b) a tendency to be pedantic assholes. But there are other professions who are even better at being pedantic assholes such as writers and lawyers, so there’s no need for someone with a specialized skillset to do it. There is some granularity in terms of prompt engineering with ReACT/LangChain, which does require a machine learning background to make any sense out of it because it's very arcane. But that's not what these job openings are looking for, yet.
- jprete 4y agoRequiring pedantry is also a system flaw. One would hope that AI assistants and delegates would understand more about what the human requesters want, and when to ask clarifying questions.