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142 sats \ 8 replies \ @ek 15h \ on: Stacker Saloon
Wondering if prompt engineers will swallow software engineers, or if software engineers will swallow prompt engineers.
Asking because I just asked the agent in Cursor to implement DnD support for my wallets, and it did a decent job. I just had to tell it a few times to make the code suck less.
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97 sats \ 2 replies \ @felipe 14h
DnD support for my wallets
I wonder how and why you’d play Dungeons and Dragons on btc wallets
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8 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 12h
Oh, haha, I was too deep in my code. I meant drag & drop!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @felipe 11h
hahah as a programmer myself I shoul've figured that out 😂
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43 sats \ 4 replies \ @felipe 14h
Wondering if prompt engineers will swallow software engineers, or if software engineers will swallow prompt engineers
About that, I think the latter is more likely.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek 12h
Why?
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293 sats \ 2 replies \ @felipe 11h
Because we (software engineers) are much better at providing the necessary context (both technical and business) to LLMs. We are also much better at breaking problems in smaller sequential steps because we (sort of) understand how the machine works
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8 sats \ 1 reply \ @sox 10h
^ completely agree, prompt engineers have to be software engineers for starters
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 7h
have any of you met someone whose title was prompt engineer?
i never met one, or looked at a job posting, but when people told me about it I assumed that they were still programmers but their task was to optimize prompt inputs to LLMs, which itself can be an iterative optimization process
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