Who remembers “prompt engineering”? Ask ChatGPT questions real good and pull down $200,000 a year! In 2023, a Washington Post headline said: “Prompt engineers’ are being hired for their skill in ge…
This post has prompted me to give a reminder that one of the authors of AI 2027 predicted back in 2021 that “prompt programming” would be a thing by now.
It was a thing in the sense that the promptfondlers were trying to portray prompting as a matter of fine technique and skill (as opposed to dumb luck mixed with trial and error with a few general guidelines that half work). It was not a thing then and is still not now in the sense that prompting has none of the skill or precision or verifiability or reliability of actual programming.
This post has prompted me to give a reminder that one of the authors of AI 2027 predicted back in 2021 that “prompt programming” would be a thing by now.
It was already a thing in 2021 so not much of a prediction.
It was a thing in the sense that the promptfondlers were trying to portray prompting as a matter of fine technique and skill (as opposed to dumb luck mixed with trial and error with a few general guidelines that half work). It was not a thing then and is still not now in the sense that prompting has none of the skill or precision or verifiability or reliability of actual programming.