prompt engineering

6 statements across 6 episodes · 0 bullish · 3 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement May 31, 2023 by Edo Liberty · across every show →

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May 31, 2023 bearish
Opinion
Liberty: Prompt engineering is a fad, not a long-term profession
“A lot of people believe that prompt engineering is incredibly crucial. I don't necessarily buy into that. I don't know if you remember, but people, like, thought that, like you know query building for Google would be a profession too, right? And that didn't qu…”
Edo Liberty May 31, 2023 ▶ 29:02 Long Term Memory for AI with Pinecone Founder & CEO, Edo Liberty
Aug 16, 2023
Assertion Partly supported
Socher: Salesforce research team invented prompt engineering in 2018
“As part of the research team, we actually invented, ah, prompt engineering in 2018”
Richard Socher Aug 16, 2023 ▶ 3:40 Reinventing Search with AI: Richard Socher on Building You.com & the Future of Google
Oct 25, 2023 negative
Opinion
Mathew Lodge argues prompt engineering is a fallacy and merely trial-and-error
“And so the idea that there's something called prompt engineering, engineering in the sense of you're applying an approach because it's going to give you the output that you desire. Is a complete fallacy. At best it's trial and error. It's prompt trial and erro…”
Mathew Lodge Oct 25, 2023 ▶ 34:49 Diffblue’s AI Testing Paradigm Shift — CEO Mathew Lodge Explains How Code Writes Itself
Nov 8, 2023
Insight
Zhou: Editing search queries on Google is essentially prompt engineering
“I think Google is essentially prompt engineering. When you edit your query to get the results that you want, that's prompt engineering.”
Sharon Zhou Nov 8, 2023 ▶ 5:29 Custom LLMs at Scale: Lamini CEO Sharon Zhou’s Playbook for Enterprise AI
Jul 25, 2024 negative
Insight
RAG and prompt engineering are just search techniques, not real AI
“Today when people are running RAG or prompt engineering those are search. That's not AI. It's like keeping the AI frozen and fixed.”
Sharon Zhou Jul 25, 2024 ▶ 41:05 Making AI Work: Fine-Tuning, Inference, Memory | Sharon Zhou, CEO, Lamini
Jan 16, 2025
Insight
Chip Huyen says prompt engineering should treat each prompt as an experiment
“I do think that it can be very systematic. You know, you should need to make it very systematic. So if you consider like each prompt is experiment, it should be watching like versions of prompt. It should be able to systematically track your progress with diff…”
Chip Huyen Jan 16, 2025 ▶ 48:53 What You MUST Know About AI Engineering | Chip Huyen, Author of “AI Engineering”
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