A PM might generate that SQL thing I mentioned and just blindly cut and paste it. For any application with more than one user, that is a bug, it's incorrect, and it's not like this is some deep cut: upserts happen all over the place.
I didn't finish the entire article, I disagreed with the line, "Prompting Is Here To Stay and PMs—Not Engineers—Are Going to Do It", because I fundamentally do not think that is true unless AI models get considerably better.
It's possible they will, maybe OpenAI will crack AGI or maybe these models will just get a lot better at figuring out your intent or maybe there's another variable that I'm not thinking of that will fix it.
I hate the term "prompt engineer" because I don't think it's engineering, at least not really. I will agree that there's a skill to getting ChatGPT to give you what you want, I think I'm pretty good at it even, but I hesitate to call it engineering because it lacks a lot of "objectivity". I can come up with a "good" prompt that will 90% of the time give me a good answer, but 10% of the time give me utter rubbish, which doesn't really feel like engineering to me.
I saw the line: `As AI models become able to write complex applications end-to-end, the work of an engineer will increasingly start to resemble that of a product manager.`, and while I don't completely disagree, I also don't completely agree either. Even when I heavily abuse ChatGPT for code generation, it doesn't feel at all like I'm barking orders to a human. It might superficially resemble it but I'm not convinced that it's actually that similar.
I hope I'm not coming off as too much of a dick here, I apologize if I am, and obviously a blog post in which you wax philosophical about the implications of new technology is perfectly fine. I think I'm just a bit on edge with this stuff because you get morons like Zuckerberg claiming they'll be able to replace all their junior and mid level engineers with AI soon, and I think that's ridiculous unless they have access to considerably better models than I do.
