Tech's hottest new job: AI whisperer. No coding required. (via) I'm quoted in this Washington Post article about prompt engineering by Drew Harwell.
There are people who belittle prompt engineers, saying, 'Oh lord, you can get paid for typing things into a box. But these things lie to you. They mislead you. They pull you down false paths to waste time on things that don't work. You're casting spells - and, like in fictional magic, nobody understands how the spells work and, if you mispronounce them, demons come to eat you.
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