Is Prompt Engineering Really Good?

To wrap up the year we’re talking about what’s breaking the internet, again. Yes, we’re talking about ChatGPT and we’re joined by our good friend Shawn “swyx” Wang. Between his writings on L-Space Diaries and his AI notes repo on GitHub, we had a lot to cover around the world of AI and what might be coming in 2023.

Also, we have one more show coming out before the end of the year — our 5th annual “State of the log” episode where Adam and Jerod look back at the year and talk through their favorite episodes of the year and feature voices from the community. So, stay tuned for that next week.

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Featuring:

• Shawn Wang – Website, GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• AI Notes
• Why “Prompt Engineering” and “Generative AI” are overhyped
• Multiverse, not Metaverse
• The Particle/Wave Duality Theory of Knowledge
• OpenRAIL: Towards open and responsible AI licensing frameworks
• Open-ish from Luis Villa
• ChatGPT for Google
• The Myth of The Infrastructure Phase

ChatGPT examples in the wild

• Debugging code
• TypeScript answer is wrong
• Fix code and explain fix
• dynamic programming
• Translating/refactoring Wasplang DSL
• AWS IAM policies
• Code that combines multiple cloud services
• Solving a code problem
• Explain computer networks homework
• Rewriting code from elixir to PHP
• Turning ChatGPT into an interpreter for a custom language, and then generating code and executing it, and solving Advent of Code correctly
• Including getting #1 place
• “I haven’t done a single google search or consulted any external documentation to do it and I was able to progress faster than I have ever did before when learning a new thing.”
• Build holy grail website and followup with framework, copy, repsonsiveness

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