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Is prompt engineering dead? Not yet, but it’s a great example of the speed of AI advancements and the subsequent challenge of navigating tech waves with what can appear to be rapidly decreasing marginal returns. Prompt engineering refers to the process of structuring prompts to increase the accuracy and effectiveness of LLMs. It’s a hot topic at the moment, as it helps solve for many of the quirks that result in poor quality outputs. Today prompt engineering is done by teams of people and is one of the new roles to emerge with this wave of AI. But recent research is showing that LLMs appear capable of creating better outcomes than humans when prompting themselves. Challenge 1: LLM models are being updated / enhanced so frequently that it makes it difficult to build lasting frameworks for one model. Challenge 2: As LLMs get smarter, prompt engineering capabilities will be embedded into the models themselves and become a feature of the LLM. Does this make investing in prompt-engineering today a waste - heck no. It just needs to be part of a larger LLMOps and ultimately DataOps motion. Why, LLMs don’t speak English, they just do a lot of math. And ultimately having *usable* proprietary data and a killer overall platform is the key to winning over the long run. We’ve been chatting to a lot of founders lately on their strategies for navigating many of the challenging questions when embedding AI into their platforms: should I fine-tune my own model? Which model should I use? Should I build a prompt-engineering team? We definitely do not have all the answers but thankfully we know a lot of folks who are actively navigating these questions and / or building the scaffolding to help others do so. We’re working on a short essay on some tips and tricks for early & growth stage companies - if you’re interested in contributing please reach out! #ai #data #software

David Benshoof Klein

Founder & CEO of Click Therapeutics

6mo

Prescient!

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