I spent a few hours learning SQL. I can get “good” at writing SQL queries within a few days. Do you want to hire me as someone who’s primary role is to write SQL queries?

I commend you for this stunning display of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

I don’t think that’s Dunning-Kruger but I get what you’re saying.

Not? "After a few hours of playing with it I give the opinion that it can't be that hard" is kinda the essence of basically not having a clue but feeling competent to express such a judgement nevertheless.

Fair enough. I think at the time I felt that just one data point wasn't enough to evoke the effect. Maybe I'm just biased against the effect since it was dis-proven: https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-k...

At this point, we're very much at an exploratory stage of LLM queries - you could of course be a ML/DL researcher or engineer that's intimately knowledgeable with the current architectures, but still - they're very large and very complex due to the sheer parameter size, so you'd still have to map out what inputs will predictably give what outputs on a finished model.

I'd imagine that being a "prompt engineer" entails finding out and mapping the structures that gives you the desired result. Think of it as a novice user of search engines VS expert user of search engines.