•  luciole (he/him)   ( @luciole@beehaw.org ) 
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    3 days ago

    Oh wow. The article says basically that but without the /s and then it gets even better. This is according to Mister AI Professor Ethan Mollick From The University Of Warthon and the link goes to a tweet (the highest form of academia) saying:

    The problem with calling “prompt engineering” a form of programming is that it isn’t like what we call coding

    In fact, coders are often bad at prompting because AI doesn’t do things consistently or work like code. The best prompters I know can’t code at all. They “teach” the AI.

    Which is just great considering the next excuse in the text is:

    this is due to insufficient reviews, either because the company has not implemented robust code quality and code-review practices, or because developers are scrutinising AI-written code less than they would scrutinise their own code

    So who the fuck even reviews the prompt engineers’ code sludge, Mister AI Professor Of Twitter?

    Whole text is such a sad cope.