Two years ago, prompt engineering was one of the buzziest jobs in tech, fetching salaries of up to $200,000 on the promise of becoming any company’s “AI Whisperer.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-hottest-ai-job-of-2023-is-already-obsolete-1961b054
This is something most people saw coming from afar. Today’s LLM tools are fundamentally human-augmenters. Just like how there are people who who really know their google search operators, there are going to be people who will leverage all the prompt incantations to augment themselves. And just like there are no google-search engineers in a company, there were never going to be prompt engineers for a company.
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