Susan Zhang Asks If SWEs Became Prompt Engineers
AI researcher questions whether software engineers now only craft prompts for advanced systems.
TLDR
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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lovable rogue@lovabler0gue@suchenzang llms have completely solved programming for me! now all i have to do is design the system and unambiguously and exhaustively specify its behavior by typing a lot of text into my terminal
CA Cado@avocadoking88@suchenzang wasn’t Dario saying this same kind of fear mongering crap with GPT2? guy is potentially the most annoying person in the entire industry
JE Jesse@jtc_ai@suchenzang I haven't written a line of code all year. Yet I am the most productive I've ever been by orders of magnitude.
HY Hyre@hyrevayn@suchenzang He was 100% correct in this prediction
CO cobo@crinzo_@suchenzang yeah.jpeg