Re:Ask HN: Is prompt engineering just snake oil?
by JasserInicide on Saturday April 22, 2023 @01:51PM
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If you're gluing stuff together and hoping it's not going to fall apart too often you're not doing either.
That's precisely what the majority of "software engineers" are doing nowadays. That's what web development is. Those that are creating tools other developers use and build things using algorithms/data structures in novel ways (essentially applied math as you said), they are the real software engineers in my eyes.
Re:Ask HN: Is prompt engineering just snake oil?
by 908B64B197 on Saturday April 22, 2023 @03:19PM
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And the last piece of the equation:
Applied Physics = Applied Math.
Software Engineering = Applied Math.
Both are about modelling, so you have a good idea if a solution works before you build it.
If you're gluing stuff together and hoping it's not going to fall apart too often you're not doing either.