Prompt Engineering and Waymo

The cameras and unused driver’s seat look so weird on Waymo: they are just adding patches to existing technologies, which is doomed to be replaced by Cybercab, who owns both the veichle and self driving technologies. This reminds me of my view of prompt engineering: if the LLM is designed to understand human language, then the tricks of rephrasing it is inevitabely outwitted by the evolution of the LLM itself.

Waymo in 2023:

Cybercab in 2026:

Both pictures are from Wikipedia.