Title: Is prompt engineering a snake oil? The engineering, as the word stands so far in history is about observing clear limitations and capabilities of something and then &quot;engineering&quot; things around it such as &quot;engineering a compiler&quot; is all about knowing the underlying processor, memory and other characteristics and then engineering a solution that converts a text notation to a stream of instructions that try to strike a balanced tradeoff.<p>But with LLMs, no one knows their workings once they are trained. The other day, Bark model[0] for text to speech, the team itself has following to say on details:<p>&gt; Below is a list of some known non-speech sounds, but we are finding more every day. Please let us know if you find patterns that work particularly well on Discord! [laughter], [laughs], [sighs]....<p>So that&#x27;s the team themselves not knowing what their model is capable of then how come prompt engineering is any engineering at all?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;suno-ai&#x2F;bark">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;suno-ai&#x2F;bark</a>
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