Fuck AI

My thoughts exactly, but the past few years had really lowered my expectations of other humans

I have had in person conversations with multiple people who swear they have fixed the AI hallucination problem the same way. "I always include the words 'make sure all of the response is correct and factual without hallucinating'"

These people think they are geniuses thanks to just telling the AI not to mess up.

Thanks to being in person with a rather significant running context, I know they are being dead serious, and no one will dissuade them from thinking their "one weird trick" works.

All the funnier when, inevitably, they get screwed up response one day and feel all betrayed because they explicitly told it not to screw up...

But yes, people take "prompt engineering" very seriously. I have seen people proudly display their massively verbose prompt that often looked like way more work than to just do the things themselves without LLM. They really think it's a very sophisticated and hard to acquire skill...

Based on my own in person experience with some LLM fanatics, I think this is quite probable. I've heard very sincere feedback from people that think they are amazing because they have "advanced prompt engineering" skills. They think "prompt engineer" will be a very selective job in and of itself and think they have an edge. They think they will be able to work on any field because the LLM will take care of domain specific stuff and their "rare mastery" of prompts will be the hot skill.

I read about that... then I saw something a few months later that said that the role was already obsolete because the "skills" prompt engineers were learning had just been incorporated into newer models.

It's not.

It was for a brief second and now it's not anymore.

'Sophisticated auto-complete' user is mad at people for inputting the same tokens into it as he does.

oh no.

rtfm being replaced by wyop.

::: spoiler wyop

write your own prompt