Stop Learning Prompt Engineering... Do This Instead
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In this video, you'll learn:
why trying to master prompt engineering right now is a waste of time.
The actual “AI skills” you should focus on if you want to get better, more helpful outputs from AI.
I don't even think you should focus on prompt engineering in 2024 and moving forward.
Do you agree?
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“Stop learning prompt engineering…”
Goes on to teach prompt engineering.
Exactly. Also states that today's SOTA models don't require specific prompt structures. Then the demoed Anthropic prompt has the typical Anthropic XML style markers such as .
Spot on!
True ✅️ 🤣🤣 Prompt engineering is not going anywhere atleast for next 10 years. Infact Domain Knowledge + Prompt engineering is going to be a basic requirement
Yep! That's what I got from this video. Don't prompt engineer, but engineer prompts like I'm doing here. Also, thinking clearly is a vague-ass skill to be taught in an 11 minute video.
Yup
Stop mastering driving, focus on being better at braking, shifting, cornering and avoiding hazards. Yeah seems like a good advice!
Sales works best when you hype someone to do what they are already doing
You can't say, "stop prompt engineering," and then tell me to do the thing that prompt engineering is.
Bro 🙄
I was watching an ad and they said, "Forget everything you know about bed linens", and I did, and boy was it a load off of my mind, then they tried to sell me bed linens and I had no clue what it was about - Mitch Headberg
I actually love that I came across this. I have an interview soon for prompt engineering, and frankly what I do with AI is communicate with it, to get outcomes and outputs I want. It take trial and error, but for me the conversation helps me with all the skills you mentioned; thinking clearly, asking better questions, figuring out exactly what I want/need.
Umm, to me this sounds like strategic prompt engineering.
Click Bait
I have been working on making story episodes that have latitude in storytelling while keeping the story consistent across episodes. I discovered I have learned how to prompt engineer for this art by accident over the last two years, learning to get LLMs to produce narratives I can edit. This task absolutely requires understanding the capabilities and limits of LLMs in general so as to treat prompt engineering as a form of programming. After a few series, I will likely create prompts to help me design these prompts. That would be meta prompt engineering. Basically, there will be a need for prompt engineering for a lot longer than you have implied.
“Only as good as your ability to clearly articulate your ask and what it is that you want” (sounds like learning how to prompt. 🤣💥
What you are saying is so clear to me now. Thinking about it, for instance, if I were to write Python by myself, the programming would have to be correct, but more importantly, clear to get the program to output exactly what I want. The best part I find with AI is that I actually enjoy the back-and-forth to get to a satisfactory conclusion.
Exactly. 🤙
Just so everyone knows, prompt engineering, whatever you want to call it, is actually very important right now. Whether you're dealing with image generation, video generation, llms etc. You have to be able to know how to break down a problem and word it to the AI. These AI systems are not to the point where they can pick up on minor little linguistic nuances that we take for granted. In a lot of cases you really need to break it down step by step in your prompt what it is You want. So yes this title is very much clickbait.
How is it that I am finally just seeing this video?
Stop prompt engineering and start prompt engineering instead :)
While LLMs are better, you still need good prompting to get what you want which is what you showed here. Try using some of the Ai coders like bolt, lovable, cursor and many others without super detailed prompts and see what happens. I’ve got one prompt that ended up being 35 pages and then it still took numerous individual prompts to give me something halfway useful.
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00:02 - Stop focusing on prompt engineering for business growth
00:55 - AI models have become smart enough to handle prompt engineering
01:48 - Focus on developing clear communication and problem-solving skills for better AI results.
02:53 - Clear thinking leads to better questioning and improved outcomes.
03:51 - Tools like anthropics console can generate prompts, but they require clear articulation of your ask.
04:45 - Focus on clear task description, not prompt engineering
05:47 - Anthropics' Claude model streamlines AI prompting process
06:48 - Focus on improving your skills instead of learning prompt engineering
I've been saying this for the last year.... I still don't understand why people are not seeing how awesome gpt are. You can now get them to work together! I've never prompted!
Prompt engineering did start out as a joke, but today it is. A seriously real and must write great prompts to get the real benefits of Ai!
Any proofs ? Comparison of engineered prompt vs non-engineered ?
It all makes logical sense to me as a creator of an Ai Music Channel. Thanks for your time and knowledge 🙏
Today, Prompt Engineering is less about a hard skill to understand the machine and more about the soft skill to properly comunicate. Know what and how to ask still important, but as the tech advances, the machines got better in understand the nuances of the prompt.
you mentioned your free community? I can only find a paid community, unless I am looking at the wrong location
So stop prompt engineering and instead better engineer your prompts.
My friends are taking coding classes at Moonpreneur before enrolling in AI courses. Can I pursue AI courses without prior coding experience? Please clarify my doubts.
I believe a hybrid method is the most useful way to go about it due to how easy it is to cause the AI to get confused in the information between sessions. Also the more back and forth the easier it is to accidentally cause AI to make incorrect associations and return less if not completely useless responses.
Yeah! Excellent point.
I get what he's saying though. He's advising everyone to ***wait for it*** focus on higher order thinking rather than bother with prompt engineering. However, prompt engineering is what is teaching a lot of people exactly how to ask better questions.
This guy advises against prompt engineering and then literally advises us to prompt engineer.😂... You can't make this sh*t up.
Thanks for watching and taking time out of your day to comment! Kind of missed the point of the video, eh? Feel free to shoot over any questions, happy to simplify even further for ya. 👍
there is a difference between prompt engineering (write better understandable prompts for LLM) and improving the self ability to express information, huh
@@RickMulreadyyou're bad. Really bad lol. Stop talking
Your sarcastic answer you makes you look even dumber. It's like you don't actually understand the term 'prompt engineering' yourself.@@RickMulready
I’m about to start learning prompt engineering. Thanks .
Nice, glad the vid's helpful!
So what you're saying is we need to learn prompt engineering?
Ya, I'm that what it sounds like. The same thing with a different name using another tool.
why do you say to stop focusing on prompt engineering when what you are saying is prompt engineering. being clear, concise, aware rather than vague, general is the definition of prompt engineering.
It is just fine tuning prompt engineering
The title is clickbait
It’s exactly what the video is about. Appreciate you stopping by!
@@RickMulreadyit’s not clickbait.
It’s just a very debatable point.
I don’t totally agree with you but great video
It’s true that for simple and maybe mid complex task you don’t have to use prompt engineering but for more complex tasks like making a model act in certain way and follow a rubric, Prompt engineering is required for good results
@@RickMulready it's totally click. The models are smarter and our instructions are simpler, it's still prompt engineering 😂
Your comment is clickbait
Why is it “clickbait?”
My friend, good Contant as always but you have to stop trailing your voice upward at the end of your sentences where everything sounds like a question even though it’s a statement. It’s called Upspeak and it’s a really bad habit. I guarantee you’ll get more repeat listens and more viewers if you stop doing this with your voice. You can look up how to stop up speak on RUclips. Thank you for your awesome videos!
so basically we need to learn prompt engineering?
yes
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 And the youtuber sai to stop learning it. What a world!
Call me old fashioned but I will rely on my prompt engineering skills 😉
Prompt engineering is hardly old fashion.
He actually straight up taught better prompt engineering in this video.
2:31 its the foundation of prompt engineering and its the foundation of your life
C'mon Rick. Yes, prompt engineering is evolving as the models evolve. Just as communication is important between people, communication is important with machines.
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Yes I used prompt engineering AI tool and it was really helpful instead learning to save time but still something is wrong and I don't get the result that I am looking for. It takes a human :)
so basically you need to know/learn how to generate the perfect prompts to master clear thinking and asking the right questions. ))
In my Podcast on Spotify - The Deep Dive - we've included some comments about this concept. Episode title: Do I Need to Learn How to Prompt AI? - - The show notes include 8 important questions (w/answers). I like the idea of the debate. We need more debate.
We mention your video in the podcast.
Video title is a bit misleading. The message is to use the tool, we don't have to know how to create good prompt.
Thanks for info about anthropic site.
Riick what do you think of the new Chat model ???
Check out this video I put out over the weekend --> ruclips.net/video/Cq1OxaoKOzc/видео.html
Very true!!!
I should have read the comments before hand.... How dare you upload this with pride. -_-
I write my question on notepad and add as much details as I can think about then I do it Then the answer that I get I either add more detail or accept it
'Prompt engineering' is as easy breathing for a Humanities student.
So we have verbal prompting? Which is the direction of interacting with our modern computer systems.
Jordan Peterson Is the subject of many RUclips videos in which he describes how to be unstoppable through clear writing and clear thinking. He emphasizes Unstoppable is due to focused rain and clear, strong articulation of what a person means. Don't obscure our intended meaning with jargon or "fluff." Recall the mantra of the TV show "Dragnet" -- "Just the facts; we don't need a story." Generative AI needs "Just the facts" of critical thinking to produce the content we need and want 🥇
Nice one, Rick cool video. I think there's a few things you missed here like prompting frameworks that help create better output depending on the task. For me, I realise that their will always be new prompt generators but what I aim to do with what I'm building is not only create a prompt for the user but educate them on why that specific prompt is better for their use case
Appreciate it. I do hear you and right now having a basic understanding of prompt engineering is helpful, but moving forward it will be less and less of a necessary skill as we’ll just be able to ask a (specific) question and the models will be smart enough to do it. 🙌
@@RickMulready I hear what you're saying, AI is getting much better at understanding what we want. Although, even if there is some structure or format used then the AI will be able to provide closer to what we want and quicker without having to re prompt it
Hmm that just sounds like prompt engineering but with extra steps
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Over that last year I've noticed that LLMs want us to think more like kids, and that's okay for me.
And NVidia CEO thinks we should stop teaching kids how to program. These wide sweeping bold statements and claims are so click baity. So very click baity.
yeah then why when i made my own llms and said in the instruction to stop deleting the users code stop editing the users code when they ask to add on and all it does ingore them unless they promote it a certian way promote engering is totally a thing to me this sounds like strategic prompt engineering. totaly click bait
Agree! Thanks!
I don't know what you trying to say
PE's will always be able to extract superior data or convince the model to take an action vs someone without PE techniques.
Ok, but isn't clearly articulating your ask and defining the context the very definition of prompt engineering?
lol yeah, I got that too. we're right don't worry lol.
Is it? I look at prompt engineering as refining a prompt in a specific format (ie: chain of thought, or multi shot) and formatting as such. The point is that needing to understand these skills is becoming less and less important.
@@RickMulready I'm new to the game and trying to understand. I see your rationale, but I'm confused as to why these skills are becoming less and less important. Can you explain? Thanks for the great video.
isn't asking better questions what prompt engineering actually is?
correct. asking better questions and giving better instructions
Definitely clickbait and quite inaccurate. If you really knew what prompt engineering was at a higher level, you would understand how powerful it is… Even with these new models.
As a matter of fact, it’s even more valuable.
if you define prompt engineering as simply maximizing interaction of using human language with an AI, then saying you don't need to have skills is stupid. Speaking and writing english in a deterministic way is the essential of so called prompt engineering, and this is no different than when speaking with people except, that you are directly asking for tasks without thought of the social interaction itself.
Stop means Start in this video ...and title ...
what you are describing is essentially iterative prompt engineering.
What’s the link for anthropics console? There’s no link in the description.
Did you endup getting the link?
@@laurj00 yes thank you!
Where’s the link for anthropics ?
What skills , please help comment
Thanks for this interesting video @RickMulready! How to get a link for anthropics console?
Semantics 101
Prompting by not using prompt engineering???
You must master prompt engineering otherwise LLM will not know what you really want
It's what you call 'opinionated charlatanism'
Be wise as serpents.
No. See, if I am able to clearly imagine and articulate my question then why would I need another AI to generate a prompt to put this prompt in other AI to get the final output?
So, you are saying we need to use AI to use AI.
Respectfully, you don't know what prompt engineering is if you think your methods are something different and novel. Literally everything you did here is prompt engineering.
Listen, at a high level all prompt engineering is, is being strategic and cognisant regarding how you communicate with the LLM, so that outputs delver what you actually want. You haven't discovered fire here, and nothing you demonstrated is remotely new.
Again, you're literally doing the very thing you claim not to be doing, which makes you look and sound foolish.
Is there an alternative to anthropic for prompt generation? It is a paid tool
...we should have paid attention to those English classes
"Stop Watching This Video"
Stop learning prompt engineering by using better prompt engineering. I'm confused.
It is just another way to generate a prompt
So, you're saying forget PE in favor of PE, because what you're suggesting is PE.
awful
In short you think humanitarians will be mostly useful to the task😊 because thry know how to explain themselves.
Prompt engineering is dead, long live prompt engineering!
Sooooo prompt engineering 😅
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This sounds a lot like prompt engineering lol
I don't like it as you're still talking about prompting and, try to code anything with lovable or bolt without prompting, you'll see how wrong you are
for those who don't know what I'm talking about, google lovable and without web dev knowledge, nor dev ops, try to build an app with Twilio's API for voice calling, text messaging and whatsapp chat by using lovable or bolt.
So saying it instead of typing it… isn’t it still prompt engineering?
Exactly some of the beginner advice I give in my consulting business when introducing AI.
You are one of the rare influences mentioning this at all. 🎉
Appreciate you watching. 🙌
Actually, you are teaching back how to prompt the prompt?! Sounds like zero content here to stop learning prompt. That is why we say "prompt engineering" when using Ai tools.
This is prompt engineering😅
This video is politically incorrect prompt engineering is still very much a thing and you still need to have it especially when you're trying to build apps or bots or AI specifically You can't just give them something and them make sure it gets done properly You have to have that prompt engineering skill in order to make sure that everything was done fully and correctly. So all your video was a bit entertaining it's not true You still need to have prompt engineering and it's even gotten up more popular among employers where they've actually started positions for prompt engineering.
Yeah, I need to develop the "thinking clearly" skill. What a joke.
"Clearly" missed the point of the video. Thanks for watching and taking time out of your day to leave a comment!
This video is Ai generated.
I would not take any advice from this guy for free let alone pay for it.
I am dumber for watching this.
That's why i don't follow the crowd you all don't think like a human. Your talking to an entity humans are slow in thinking he will not progress past prompting. Think about it you can have another ai write the prompts 😅😅😅 they waisted allot of time assuming
You haven't tried to get artistic output, have you? AI is dumber than dumb. A toddler is smarter. I give one task demands and Kling IGNORES it.
Lol "How to be more intelligent" is a hilarious video topic.
He is earning money by selling BOGUS FAKE and FICTITIOUS assumptions.
Click bait 😂
Another clickbait.
I dont understand how this is a skill...lol