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prompt engineering

7 statements across 7 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Aug 18, 2023 by Richard Socher · across every show →

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Aug 18, 2023
Assertion Partly supported
Socher: Prompt engineering was invented at Salesforce Research
“When we invented prompt engineering, we actually did it at Salesforce research when I was chief scientist there.”
Richard Socher Aug 18, 2023 ▶ 42:05 Richard Socher: The 3 Biggest Barriers to Building AGI; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1050 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 10, 2024 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2034
Prompt Engineering and AI Research Directors Will Be Future Job Categories
“Well, I think we'll have a whole swath of jobs that are in the kind of prompt engineering, you know, kind of, AI research assistant, you know, kind of directors.”
Reid Hoffman Jun 10, 2024 ▶ 1:05:55 Reid Hoffman: The Future of TikTok and The Inflection AI Deal | E1163 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 10, 2025 negative
Insight
Shulman: Requiring complex prompts is an AI product failure, not user failure
“Well, if it took a really complicated prompt and 1600 iterations, that's a failure of my product, not a failure of the candidate.”
Mikey Shulman Jan 10, 2025 ▶ 40:10 Mikey Shulman, CEO @Suno: The Future of Music, What is Gonna Happen? | E1244 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 17, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ross: Prompt engineering will unlock 1.4 billion potential African entrepreneurs
“I think prompt engineering is going to unlock a huge swath of human society. There's 1.4000000000 people in Africa who know how to speak, and if you were to give them access to a tool that They could create applications live just by speaking to it. That would …”
Jonathan Ross Feb 17, 2025 ▶ 1:24:50 Jonathan Ross, Founder & CEO @ Groq: NVIDIA vs Groq - The Future of Training vs Inference | E1260 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 18, 2025
Assertion Supported
Socher: Peer reviewers publicly rejected the original prompt engineering paper
“We invented prompt engineering which was majorly rejected publicly on open review an idea that made no sense to the reviewers.”
Richard Socher Apr 18, 2025 ▶ 4:40 20VC: Foundation Models: Who Wins & Who Loses | How Economies and Labour Markets Need to Change in a World of AI | China vs the US in an AI Race: What You Need to Know | Rich Socher, Founder @ You.com
Jul 11, 2025 bullish
Insight
Flanagan: Customized AI prompts outperform off-the-shelf GTM software
“What we have found is the more that we customized a prompt for our needs and the way that we customize that for our needs, the results are much, much better.”
Kieran Flanagan Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 10:24 20Growth: The Death of Growth Teams? | How Hubspot Use AI to Triple Email Conversion | The Future of AI SEO | Why Prompt Engineering is the New Coding | What Every CMO Needs to Know About AI in 2025
Aug 28, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Benioff: Prompt engineering originated from Salesforce AI research team
“Prompt engineering, which by the way was came out of our Salesforce AI research team”
Marc Benioff Aug 28, 2025 ▶ 2:18 Anthropic's $10B Round, Klarna's IPO, Inside a16z's 72 Deal Seed Investment Machine ft. Marc Benioff · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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