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sopmac21379 OP t1_j5x9l7u wrote

Reply to comment by The_Red_Grin_Grumble in Is Prompt Engineering the Career of the Future? by sopmac21379

The general Google search analogy is correct and a potential fate that prompt engineering may succumb to. Though knowing how to create Google search queries is a differentiator in software engineering today, just not its own job category.

Another analogy worth consideration is that of SQL and the database. Prompt engineering could become the "SQL" for large language models who are exposed as APIs--like the OpenAI API, which lets you programmatically access GPT-3 via prompts.

Am interested in seeing how many startups are created as convenient interfaces on top of the OpenAI API now that ChatGPT awareness has rapidly spread.

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frequenttimetraveler t1_j5z8ax1 wrote

It's in their name, they are called "Language models" for a reason. They understand language and they are only going to get better and better from here on. Only a person who does not speak a human language will need help with them .

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