Comment by tdeck
10 hours ago
Is this the "prompt engineering" that I keep hearing will be an indispensable job skill for software engineers in the AI-driven future? I had better start learning or I'll be replaced by someone who has.
10 hours ago
Is this the "prompt engineering" that I keep hearing will be an indispensable job skill for software engineers in the AI-driven future? I had better start learning or I'll be replaced by someone who has.
If you aren't telling your computer to ignore goblins, you're going to be left behind.
I'm goblinmaxxing myself.
Is GPT5.5 goblingooning fr?
We’re definitely not escaping the permanent goblin underclass with this one.
permanent goblin underclass
I wonder how much energy OpenAI spends each day on pink elephant paradoxing goblins. A prompt like that will preoccupy the LLM with goblins on every request.
That is a great point. Machine consumes energy of adding goblins in every response. The machine consumes energy on removing goblins from every response. That is a great attack vector. If (wild imagination ensues) an adversary can do that x100 (goblins, potatoes, dragons, Lightning McQueen, etc.) they can render the machine useless/uneconomical from the standpoint of energy consumption.
In Terminator 7, everyone will carry goblin plush toys to defend themselves against the machines.
I mean probably not or they wouldn’t have shipped it, right?
Prompt engineering is mostly structured thought. Can you write a lab report? Can you describe the who, what, when, where, and why of a problem and its solution?
You can get it to work with one off commands or specific instructions, but I think that will be seen as hacks, red flags, prompt smells in the long term.
If I could do those things, I wouldn't be using an LLM to write for me, now would I?
You don’t let the LLM write prise for you, you get it to translate natural language into code somewhat coherently.
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