Comment by embedding-shape
4 hours ago
You'll get a vastly different experience the more you use these tools and learn their limitations and how you can structure things effectively to let them do their job better. But lots of people, understandably, don't take the time to actually sit down and learn it. They spend 30 seconds on some prompt not even a human would understand, and expect the tooling to automatically spend 5 hours trying its hardest at implementing it, then they look at the results and conclude "How could anyone ever be productive with this?!".
People say a lot of things, and there is a lot of context behind what they're saying that is missing, so then we end up with conversations that basically boil down to one person arguing "I don't understand how anyone cannot see the value in this" with another person thinking "I don't understand how anyone can get any sort of value out of this", both missing the other's perspective.
Prompt engineering is just good transfer notes and ticket writing, which is something a majority of the devs I've worked with don't enjoy or excel at