[elliottkember]

3D printing is an interesting analogy. When I got my printer I really truly thought I’d be printing all sorts of things to use around the house and gadgets and stuff.

It turns out that to be a good 3D printer, you need to be really good at CAD, and measuring stuff with Vernier calipers. That’s like prompt engineering.

Then there was the nozzle temperature, print errors, and other strange results — call those hallucinations.

Once I had designed something that I needed many instances of, it was great. But for one-offs, it was a lot of work. So it goes with AI.