Comment by cubefox
4 days ago
> Remember in 2023 when people thought "prompt engineering" would be the new software engineering and invested tons of time into learning CoT, ReAct, thread-of-thoughts, etc?
Prompt engineering was a GPT-3 era term, which couldn't understand instructions. Then ChatGPT came out in late 2022, which made actual prompt engineering superfluous.
No, people tried to sell “prompt engineering” services well beyond that — especially for image generating AIs, which where believed to need extra instructions like “professional lighting”, a name of a camera model, lens parameters, etc.