In generative AI’s moment, prompting basking in its glory

When Andrej Karpathy, the former head of AI at Tesla who now works for OpenAI, tweeted “the hottest new programming language is English” a few months back, it was prescience at its best.

With AI platforms like ChatGPT all the rage, knowing how to optimise responses is the next big challenge, resulting in a whole new universe where it’s all about phrasing that perfect prompt. One can say that if generative AI is having its moment of glory, so is prompting.

A host of platforms and features promise that perfect prompt, vacancies are being advertised for prompt experts, there are prompt marketplaces, prompt engineering is a buzzword of sorts, and online courses abound on how to become one.