Susan Zhang Asks If SWEs Became Prompt Engineers
AI researcher questions whether software engineers now only craft prompts for advanced systems.
Susan Zhang, a research engineer at Google DeepMind, posted that seventeen months have passed and asked whether software engineers have all become product manager prompt harnesses controlling machine gods. She attached a screenshot to the post. Systems engineer Yacine replied in agreement that the role shift has occurred. The exchange centers on observed changes in how developers interact with AI tools following an earlier observation point.
my, how time flies. it's been 17 months already (!). is it all over? have SWEs all turned into product-manager-prompt-harnesses controlling the machine gods?
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Susan Zhang Asks If SWEs Became Prompt Engineers
AI researcher questions whether software engineers now only craft prompts for advanced systems.
Susan Zhang, a research engineer at Google DeepMind, posted that seventeen months have passed and asked whether software engineers have all become product manager prompt harnesses controlling machine gods. She attached a screenshot to the post. Systems engineer Yacine replied in agreement that the role shift has occurred. The exchange centers on observed changes in how developers interact with AI tools following an earlier observation point.
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3 posts@suchenzang But Susan, AI _is_ writing essentially all of the code!
@suchenzang I was thinking the latter! At least IMO, always been that way, except for one-person startup founders building an app. Commercially written code just has a way of ending up with a lot of features.
