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"It's basically just trying different approaches until you come up with something that subjectively seems good enough" Sounds like a lot of my engineering! Esp
by ianbicking 3y ago
"It's basically just trying different approaches until you come up with something that subjectively seems good enough"
Sounds like a lot of my engineering! Especially architecture, but generally any higher level code/object/function organization is exactly like this, and in practice even though I know a lot of patterns and have lots of experience and opinions, I often refactor architecture when I'm in a new domain. Which is also true of prompt engineering.
- nradov 3y agoSo what you're doing is probably software development rather than engineering per se. And I don't mean that in a negative or critical way. Most software domains don't necessarily require an engineering approach in order to produce good results. I have done the same thing myself. At some level we're just arguing semantics but I think there is intellectual value in being precise with labels.