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Is this the "prompt engineering" that I keep hearing will be an indispensable job skill for software engineers in the AI-driven future? I had better start learn
by tdeck 5mo ago
Is this the "prompt engineering" that I keep hearing will be an indispensable job skill for software engineers in the AI-driven future? I had better start learning or I'll be replaced by someone who has.
- dexwiz 5mo agoPrompt engineering is mostly structured thought. Can you write a lab report? Can you describe the who, what, when, where, and why of a problem and its solution? You can get it to work with one off commands or specific instructions, but I think that will be seen as hacks, red flags, prompt smells in the long term.
- tdeck 5mo agoIf I could do those things, I wouldn't be using an LLM to write for me, now would I?
- eptcyka 5mo agoYou don’t let the LLM write prise for you, you get it to translate natural language into code somewhat coherently.
- tdeck 5mo agoIn this instance I'm assuming most of the "goblin" references were in prose rather than in source code, so the goal of this particular prompt edit was directed toward making the prose better.
- kilpikaarna 5mo agoBut it's much less annoying to just write the code than to try to express it in sufficiently descriptive natural language.
- boomlinde 5mo agoI wonder how much energy OpenAI spends each day on pink elephant paradoxing goblins. A prompt like that will preoccupy the LLM with goblins on every request.
- daishi55 5mo agoI mean probably not or they wouldn’t have shipped it, right?
- boomlinde 5mo agoGreater context size means more computational resources means more energy. Dedicating a portion of the context to telling the LLM not to refer to goblins then has a non-zero energy cost every time you prompt the model.
- HenryBemis 5mo agoThat is a great point. Machine consumes energy of adding goblins in every response. The machine consumes energy on removing goblins from every response. That is a great attack vector. If (wild imagination ensues) an adversary can do that x100 (goblins, potatoes, dragons, Lightning McQueen, etc.) they can render the machine useless/uneconomical from the standpoint of energy consumption.
- antonvs 5mo agoIn Terminator 7, everyone will carry goblin plush toys to defend themselves against the machines.
- heavyset_go 5mo agoIf you aren't telling your computer to ignore goblins, you're going to be left behind.
- girvo 5mo agoWe’re definitely not escaping the permanent goblin underclass with this one.
- qingcharles 5mo agoI'm goblinmaxxing myself.
- wiseowise 5mo agoIs GPT5.5 goblingooning fr?
- NookDavoos 5mo agopermanent goblin underclass