One of the fundamental issues I have with "prompt engineering" is that it's literally the opposite of engineering, and I'm shocked more engineers don't say that. It's an assault on the sciences and the humanities at the same time.

Management and economics students are, by and large, parasites who deal in pseudoscience.

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I will steal this insult

This comes really close to a question bubbling in my head recently: I, and every really good programmer I've ever known, got into this business because *we liked it*. I enjoy learning about these things. I find the act of writing code *fun*. When people asked me why I liked my job I enthused, "It's like being paid to solve logic puzzles!"

And they would shake their head in disbelief, because they didn't enjoy logic puzzles.

Vibe coding seems to me more like *work* than *fun*.

Nobody needs the skill to be able to verify the AI wrote an O(log_2_ N) search rather than O(N^2). It doesn't even matter because we can just bury the server at sea, overclock it, and pair it up with 10000 friends to handle the load.

So there you go. Waste of fucking time.

Every now and then, we're treated to a spate of press decrying legacy admissions at the Ivys, and I just shake my head.

At least where the undergrad degrees are concerned, legacy admissions are almost the entire value proposition for the "normal" students.

Getting in to Harvard undergrad grants you entry into the legacy world where the Masters of the Universe, like this dipshit econ major, reside. It means you too can fail upward until you're a Ma$ter.

> economics major

imagine being 19 and the whole world before you and you had to choose a particular path of expertise that could define your next decade's relationship with knowledge, your community, your identity

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as someone who does actually use AI coding tools for work AND has a CompE degree where I took a class on AI as a technical elective, idk how you would even fill up an entire course on prompt engineering. It’s just getting a statistical model to google stuff for you

This is like when I had a sales guy be shocked that I didn’t know how to do stuff with excel, like my guy in school I learned how to make the software not just use it

I think economics majors are wasting their time on classes about money when they could be shutting the fuck up about things they know nothing about isntead

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Haha, sorry, YMMD.

And i agree 102.5%.

This tag is rather hash.

Gooden on ya tho.

Germane out, AI in.

CRUNCH

Hm yes, because telling an LLM what you want it to do requires "skill" and "precision", and is a "very important skill to learn for the future."

😒

Electrical, civil, mechanical, … engineering schools are all closing down in favour of a one-week prompt engineering degree.

Along with all the other faculties.

All pointless now.

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If you don’t understand the code that was generated, you don’t add any value to the equation.

Knowledge is power, go learn.

A rusty needle in the crimson haystack trying to be discovered as a golden needle.

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