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Re:$335,000 Pay for ‘AI Whisperer’ Jobs Appears in Red-Hot M... by minimaxir on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @11:25AM (#35358613)
Quoting myself from the post I linked above: as a machine learning engineer, I can attest that the only reasons machine learning engineers are good at prompt engineering are a) years of practice and b) a tendency to be pedantic assholes. But there are other professions who are even better at being pedantic assholes such as writers and lawyers, so there’s no need for someone with a specialized skillset to do it.

There is some granularity in terms of prompt engineering with ReACT/LangChain, which does require a machine learning background to make any sense out of it because it's very arcane. But that's not what these job openings are looking for, yet.

Re:$335,000 Pay for ‘AI Whisperer’ Jobs Appears in Red-Hot M... by jprete on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @11:31AM (#35358703)
Requiring pedantry is also a system flaw. One would hope that AI assistants and delegates would understand more about what the human requesters want, and when to ask clarifying questions.