Good article. The rise of "prompt influencers" is frustrating, since it makes it a bit trickier to find the signal of interesting AI content through the noise. I miss when the influencers were all just hawking altcoins. Guess I'll stick to watching Two Minute Papers[0] and reading papers that ak[1] tweets.
> Being “good at prompting” is a temporary state of affairs.
Valid point. Sam A said he thinks prompt engineering won't even be a thing in 5 years. And in the shorter term, prompts that work with a specific model like GPT-4 might not work well for future models, or even updates to the same model.
That said, I see prompt engineering as the beginning of a new paradigm of "intent engineering"--where developers use AI to understand and anticipate user intent with minimal user effort. It'll be fun to see what that looks like in 5 years.
> Being “good at prompting” is a temporary state of affairs.
Valid point. Sam A said he thinks prompt engineering won't even be a thing in 5 years. And in the shorter term, prompts that work with a specific model like GPT-4 might not work well for future models, or even updates to the same model.
That said, I see prompt engineering as the beginning of a new paradigm of "intent engineering"--where developers use AI to understand and anticipate user intent with minimal user effort. It'll be fun to see what that looks like in 5 years.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbfYPyITQ-7l4upoX8nvctg
[1] https://twitter.com/_akhaliq