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yc_w24_chad
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Someone whose job is typing requests to a chatbot in just the right tone. A solid chunk of the role is saying 'please' and 'you are a world-class expert' to a machine.
He's a Prompt Engineer now. Last year that was called 'googling,' and the year before that it was just 'his job.'
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The classic defense when code fails everywhere except the one laptop it was written on.
— it's crashing in prod.
— works on my machine.
— we don't ship your machine, Dave.
— works on my machine.
— we don't ship your machine, Dave.
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A famous startup accelerator (the 'YC' in everyone's bio). Gives founders a small check, three months, and a network in exchange for a slice of the company. Half tech bootcamp, half summer camp.
Every third person in this San Francisco coffee shop is 'YC W25' and pitching to the other two.
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A deliberately provocative opinion served fresh for clicks. The worse and hotter the take, the better it performs.
His hot take was that sleep is a competitive disadvantage. He looked deeply unwell saying it.
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Academic insult for an AI that convincingly repeats patterns from its training data without understanding any of it. The polite way to say 'it doesn't actually know anything.'
He asked if the model was conscious. It's a stochastic parrot, my guy.
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