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@ianboudreau.com

"Prompt engineering" isn't a real career field and the degree to which it even seems necessary to anyone is the degree to which the technology doesn't actually work as advertised

@ianboudreau.com

When you ask the computer for something it doesn't give you what you want, or anything useful for that matter - so obviously that means you need to retool and get a degree in Cajoling the Stupid Computer

16/12/25, 2:35 pm9 reposts155 likes

Mr. Hands is hovering over you 👻️

@mrhands31.bsky.social

"Cajoling the stupid computer into doing what the client wants" is what I do for a living, sir

@ianboudreau.com

This is like majoring in skipping the intro message in the pharmacy phone tree system

Broken Account, switching to another.

@bkey1970.myatproto.social

I majored in skipping the IRS hold queue.

@queviva.bsky.social

Essentially a degree in Googling

Matt F✈️🌈🇫🇷

@typevolant.com

designed by those who needed a letmegooglethatforyou link in the first place

@ianboudreau.com

And the fact they called it "engineering"! Fuck me, buddy, tell me another one

Miniature Enemy Crab

@davidhex.bsky.social

if it's anything, it's just... editing. you're doing editing.

Jimmy Buffett truther

@fuggerfailson.bsky.social

am i an engineer? not really, i’m more of a scientist, i mostly focus on prompt theory

@rwclouseiii.bsky.social

So many folks I have respected have sold out to the “prompt engineer” thing. It’s like a zombie movie. One by one they drop.

@kindall.bsky.social

This is fundamentally the same thing as programming, except you need to learn a lot less about how to phrase things so the computer understands them.