Wrapping up the journey

There was a lot of ground to cover; will these skills, methods, practices, heuristics, and recommendations that will remain true three to five years from now? Sure, OpenAI will change its Playground, and a few links will stop working (the online references will be updated), but the concepts will live on for a while. The goal for OpenAI is to eliminate the considerable work needed with prompt engineering; when that happens, recycle the book and retire to the beach. However, for the foreseeable future, there is work to do.

And maybe you noticed we didn’t once discuss ChatGPT’s enterprise tools. Of course, they have new tools coming soon, and a few select companies would be early adopters. What OpenAI can provide is likely valuable and even necessary but not sufficient. Some of this is already part of any plan, like the public APIs, multi-factor authentication, batch APIs for offline workload, encryption, and single sign-on (SSO). The ecosystem...