The Psychological Weirdness of “Prompt Engineering”

It’s like playing Taboo with an alien creature

Midjourney creation from the prompt “pac-man screen, pac man, ghosts, inky, blinky, clyde, pac man maze, pac man, in the style of mondrian, modern art, modernism, bloom”

“Prompt engineering” is a funny phrase, isn’t it?

It’s the term of art for when you feed a textual prompt to an AI (like DALL-E or Midjourney ) to get it to produce a picture, or when you ask the code-generating AI Copilot to write some software.