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I use ChatGPT pretty much every day (enough to where I could probably call myself a "prompt engineer" if I didn't think that that was kind of asinine), I'm pret
by tombert 2y ago
I use ChatGPT pretty much every day (enough to where I could probably call myself a "prompt engineer" if I didn't think that that was kind of asinine), I'm pretty good with it, and the reason I did that was kind of for the reasons laid out in this blog post.
I've always been of the opinion of that for anything involving "at will employment", the name of the game is "adapt or die". Fundamentally corporations are sociopathic [1], and if they don't think that they're getting enough value from you, they will fire you and/or not hire you. It's decidedly not-personal, they just don't feel like you're contributing enough to give them a sufficient return on investment.
There are plenty of trends that I've thought were kind of dumb but I try and get at least minimally competent simply because I'm afraid that if I don't then a company will fire me and hire some kid straight out of school who is excited for this stuff. I learned basic Ethereum Solidity stuff, for example, even though I think cryptocurrency is pretty stupid, because I was afraid that that might end up being the trend, whether or not I agree with it. I learned Node.js very shortly after it got any traction (2012) because even though I hated JS at the time, I felt like there was a good chance that Node would catch on. I actually don't think that ChatGPT is stupid, I think it's generally useful, but I've become competent with using it for the same reasons.
I get a little annoyed that people act like they're entitled to have the same job for forever and won't be forced to adapt to the times. That would be great, but that's not going to fucking happen, and it's not new with AI. You've always been at risk of being replaced with new technology and automation, and that's not a bad thing.
[1] The people there aren't necessarily sociopathic, but businesses are a sort of separate thing that makes it much easier for these people to carry out sociopathic things.
- johnwheeler 2y agoRight, I finally realized. I’m a damn prompt engineer. Have you been using the upload file feature of desktop? Game changer I iterate, upload, iterate, upload. You can upload multiple files. It loses a bit of context sometime for some reason but it beats pasting in 20 pounds of code.
- tombert 2y agoNo but I should. I have been using Kagi Ultimate and it’s ChatGPT frontend which is generally fine but I do miss out on some of the sexiest newest features of ChatGPT as a result. I am debating downgrading my Kagi membership back to pro and signing up for ChatGPT again so I can play with the upload features