[neilv]

Early in Web, I saw job posts for "HTML Programmer".

(This was before JS, before CSS, etc. Mostly just your original HTML simplified LaTeX article.cls elements, plus `A` and `IMG`, and maybe a `FONT`.)

HTML was easier to use than many word processors, but because it was new and unfamiliar, yet looked like it might be huge... for a brief period, practically anyone who could spell "HTML" or "WWW" could posture as a whiz kid, and make big bucks.

I'd guess that "prompt engineer" will evolve into real careers soon, but the nature of the technology and the role will be very different than it is this quarter.