Is prompt engineering for real?

Is #PromptEngineering for real? Is it really a coherent, specialized skill that will stay relevant or is it just a buzzword about tinkering with another buzzword? There is a multi-tiered debate going on about this right now and I won't be able to cover all of it here. I will say, though, that there is a lot more to it than you will be exposed to playing with #ChatGPT for personal use and I often see the topic carelessly over-trivialized on social media. If you are building an application using a #LargeLanguageModel or similar, you are really writing prompts for other people that might not be cooperative, you might have prompts helping write those prompts, and the stakes for your business could be pretty high. It is a challenge to take seriously.

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