## Metadata - Author: [[drew-harwell|Drew Harwell]] - Full Title:: Tech’s Hottest New Job: AI Whisperer. No Coding Required. - Category:: #🗞️Articles - URL:: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/25/prompt-engineers-techs-next-big-job/ - Finished date:: [[2023-02-27]] ## Highlights > And at advanced levels, the engineers’ dialogues play out like intricate logic puzzles: twisting narratives of requests and responses, all driving toward a single goal. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gt8yg8vs735ppppapm6pn8xq)) > The trick is “constructing for it a premise, a story that can only be completed in one way.” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gt8yhr634x14s82189bkzpaf)) - Note: Which is exactly the kind of ambiguity natural language has, and programming languages have not. > Prompt engineering, he said, citing a [2021 research paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.07350), is most importantly about “constraining behavior” — blocking off options so that the AI pursues only the human operator’s “desired continuation.” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gt8yqwe2bym137bt81kdjsy2)) > It can be a very difficult mental exercise,” he said. “You’re exploring the multiverse of fictional possibilities, sculpting the space of those possibilities and eliminating” everything except “the text you want.” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gt8yrap7mkawxrvqp3cwem6d))