Re:Ask HN: Is prompt engineering just snake oil?
by ulrashida on Saturday April 22, 2023 @01:50PM
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Construction techniques are vital, but a civil engineer is employed to conduct the correct QA/QC on those techniques.
This doesn't devalue the effort of the work crew, but it does recognize you need accredited professionals at certain parts of the process to ensure public safety.
To be a bit more pointed: causality isn't difficult here. This legislation and professional practice was deliberately designed as a result of the numerous failures observed throughout the 1900s. The cause: multiple fatalities and unreliable infrastructure let to the regulation of the engineering profession. The effect: we are safer.
Re:Ask HN: Is prompt engineering just snake oil?
by taeric on Saturday April 22, 2023 @02:52PM
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My point is that it is all of the regulation involved. Not just the single line worker that is the civil engineer. I know more than a few of those folks, and they are not some magical being. And it is more than the civil engineer. It is also the auditor. The inspector. Even the manager making sure they are all working together.
That is, it is a whole system. And largely comes to costs and known building techniques. After all, certified engineers built "galloping gerdy."
(And I didn't even get into maintenance costs and application. )