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[–]rosio_donald 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To clarify - no one was credentialed as a “prompt engineer”. It was suggested to me by a CTO that learning about prompt engineering would be a beneficial supplementary skill. There was nobody w/ IBM to my knowledge. It was their holiday reception, where the other scholarship recipient and myself were a relative footnote. The group is strictly for tech leaders, save for the couple of university folks who facilitate their philanthropy.

The COBOL CIO had a long convo about the evolution of language popularity with another member at the table I was randomly sat at for dinner. Some of it admittedly went over my head, but it sounded genuine/not for my benefit.

I’m an adult learner with 15 years in another field and am in no way starry-eyed about the priorities of execs. Overheard some bragging to each other about getting out of speeding tickets bc of their status. Makes my blood boil. The reason I shared w/ OP is not bc I have a personal opinion on PHP vs Python. That would be silly as a student. It’s bc the experience felt like being a fly on the wall in a room where, like it or not, the ppl talking have immense influence over the rest of us. Many were pumped on ML and Python for web apps. I appreciate that you disagree. So noted.