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Re:Show HN: Prompt Engineering Jobs by submeta on Sunday April 02, 2023 @04:28PM (#35414830)
When it comes to making ChatGPT solve technical problems, my observation is that you need to be good at writing (technical) requirements to be good at writing prompts.

When I assign a task to a (human) developer, the results depend on two things: First, how good the developer is, second, and more importantly, how well and clearly I am expressing the requirements. And this is also true for ChatGPT. With very precise requirements I get very good results.

So prompt engineering is like writing good requirements, and that also requires understanding the problem domain.

Re:Show HN: Prompt Engineering Jobs by ChatPGT on Sunday April 02, 2023 @06:07PM (#35415777)
writing/reading/understanding good requirements is a really nice skill to have in this decade. I have a peer that just CAN NOT interpret what is going on so he always need to schedule a meeting and it pisses me off hard. "are you able to talk right now?" sigh