I just realized that #AI “prompt engineering” is just SEO (“#SearchEngine optimization”) in reverse.
#SEO spams unique language into specific content in hopes of raising the latter’s rank when querying a corpus indexed by an opaque non-deterministic algorithm.
#PromptEngineering spams unique language into a query against a corpus indexed by an opaque non-deterministic algorithm in hopes of returning specific content.
I also just realized a striking similarity between the total absorption of certain current programmers’ time with #AI#PromptEngineering and previous generations’ occasional obsessions with #CellularAutomata models like Conway’s Game of Life.
Both activities involve long hours playing Aristotelian Prime Mover, tweaking a system’s initial inputs while inducing larger conclusions about its emergent behavior. And both groups Will Not Shut Up about it.
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