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Stop prompting, start engineering: Why Yann LeCun is right and your agency is wrong

Katch International's Zara Kennedy makes the case for creative technologists who understand pipelines, nodes and model weights. "Agencies must stop treating AI like a magic wand; start treating it as an engineering discipline."

By Zara Kennedy, Vice President of Rotaract Club of Dubai Cosmopolitan, and Junior Account Manager, Katch International on prompting and engineering AIBy Zara Kennedy, Vice President of Rotaract Club of Dubai Cosmopolitan, and Junior Account Manager, Katch International

There is a specific kind of exhaustion that every creative in the Middle East is currently feeling. It’s the fatigue of the ‘re-roll.’

You know the scenario. You type a prompt into Midjourney for a client pitch: “A futuristic Riyadh skyline, hyper realistic, golden hour.” The result is breathtaking. But then the client offers feedback: “Love it. Just add more trees to the streets to match the Saudi Green Initiative.”

You change one word in the prompt. You hit enter. Suddenly, the trees are there, but the lighting is flat, the composition has shifted, the skyline now looks more like Tokyo than Riyadh, and you have lost the magic.

For the last two years, we have been sold a lie. W


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