Metadata
- Author: 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)
The trick is “constructing for it a premise, a story that can only be completed in one way.” (View Highlight)
- 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, is most importantly about “constraining behavior” — blocking off options so that the AI pursues only the human operator’s “desired continuation.” (View Highlight)
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)