Day 34 of 100 Days of AI

I’m sceptical about “prompt engineering” being a deep specialised thing. It felt a bit like gimmicky hype of a new job profession that would ride the wave of generative AI hype. Why? Because writing LLM prompts isn’t exact an science or precise engineering (more on this here.) However, I’m increasingly changing my view on how credible the skill really is.

Today, I read this article about innovation through prompting, which shares some cool ideas on how to use prompts and LLMs in education. What stood out to me though — and what I also think might happen — was this line in the article:

“…increasingly AIs will just prompt themselves to solve your problem based on your goals.“

So actually, will prompt engineering really be a thing or will AI agents just do it?

We’ll find out soon enough.