Comment by JimDabell
7 days ago
> My problem is that (in my experience anyways) this is slower than me just writing the code myself.
How much experience do you have writing code vs how much experience do you have prompting using AI though? You have to factor in that these tools are new and everybody is still figuring out how to use them effectively.
> You have to factor in that these tools are new and everybody is still figuring out how to use them effectively.
I think that the skills required are highly overblown.
The user should be aware of what each model excels at, its context size, temperature, and other parameters; how to communicate well, set system prompts and phrase tasks in a clear, succinct yet informative way; how to refocus the session when it veers off track; keep up to date with the latest (<~6mo) concepts and tooling, and so on.
All of this is trivial for a competent software engineer. The idea that it requires some specialized training that couldn't be attained by experimentation and reading a blog post is absurd. "Prompt engineering" just isn't a thing.