Comment by ramraj07
2 days ago
It does make things non deterministic and complicated. Like it or not, this IS the job now. If you don't do it, someone else is going to have to.
In my AI application I made deliberate decisions to divorce prompt engineering from the actual engineering, create all the tooling needed to do the prompt engineering as methodically as possible (componentize, version, eval) and handed it off to the subject matter experts. Clearly people who think this is the equivalent of choosing a seed shouldn't be writing prompts.
I will just enjoy the job security that Seed Science provides me. At any day I could reduce the training costs of all these hyperscalers by 30%. Or maybe not.
> Like it or not, this IS the job now.
Nope. The job is still to come up with working code on the end.
If LLMs make your life harder, and you just don't use them, then you'll just get the job done without them.