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The barriers to AI engineering are crumbling fast

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250 points lewq | 1 comments | 14 Nov 24 14:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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hpen ◴[14 Nov 24 15:23 UTC] No.42137063[source]▶
Does AI engineer == API Engineer?
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bormaj ◴[14 Nov 24 15:32 UTC] No.42137180[source]▶
The P is silent
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sdesol ◴[14 Nov 24 15:37 UTC] No.42137227[source]▶
If the P is silent, how can you "Prompt"?
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Joker_vD ◴[14 Nov 24 15:44 UTC] No.42137323[source]▶
How many silent P's are in the word "prompt"? Let me ask ChatGPT...
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tjr ◴[14 Nov 24 16:36 UTC] No.42137918[source]▶
Just for fun, I did ask ChatGPT:

There’s one silent "p" in the word "prompt"—right at the beginning! The “p” isn’t pronounced, but it sneaks into the word anyway.

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dpassens ◴[14 Nov 24 17:07 UTC] No.42138312[source]▶
Normally, I'd just dismiss this as ChatGPT being trained not to disagree, but as a non-native speaker this has me doubting myself: Is prompt really pronounced rompt?

It feels like it can't possible be true, but on the other hand, I'm probably due for having my confidence in my English completely shattered again by learning another weird word's real pronunciation, so maybe this is it.

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akavi ◴[14 Nov 24 19:33 UTC] No.42140196{3}[source]▶
I'm a native english speaker, and prompt is pronounced "promt" ( /prɒmt/ in my roughly General American accent). Ie, there is a silent "p", but it's the second one, not the first.
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1. okasaki ◴[14 Nov 24 21:58 UTC] No.42141660{4}[source]▶
There's no silent p in prompt. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/prompt