I’m trying to think through the obvious retort that it’s programming. I guess you can’t quite say it’s programming like python (for example) is programming because in Python the creators explicitly defined everything about the language and created a concrete API for programming with it. With ChatGPT, no one knows what’s going on inside and the API is just guesswork.
I think this is an indication that it’s not only not programming (at least like we know it) but that we’re actually dealing with some sort of AI (maybe already obvious, but this really drives it home). It’s more like asking a programmer to program something than it is to program. Prompt engineering is requirements gathering.
I think this is an indication that it’s not only not programming (at least like we know it) but that we’re actually dealing with some sort of AI (maybe already obvious, but this really drives it home). It’s more like asking a programmer to program something than it is to program. Prompt engineering is requirements gathering.