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142 sats \ 9 replies \ @ek 23 Jun \ on: Stacker Saloon
Wondering if prompt engineers will swallow software engineers, or if software engineers will swallow prompt engineers.
Asking because I just asked the agent in Cursor to implement DnD support for my wallets, and it did a decent job. I just had to tell it a few times to make the code suck less.
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have any of you met someone whose title was prompt engineer?
i never met one, or looked at a job posting, but when people told me about it I assumed that they were still programmers but their task was to optimize prompt inputs to LLMs, which itself can be an iterative optimization process
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have any of you met someone whose title was prompt engineer? I never met one
Neither have I. But what I have seen is non-programmers trying to "vibecode" ideas here and there, which is totally fine and even helpful, sometimes. I'm actually instructing some people on how to produce html prototypes using LLMs so they can better describe what they want me to do
Before LLMs it was like this:
To be honest, it still is but it made iterations faster