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by kjkjadksj 950 days ago
Prompt engineer is probably going to be a fleeting meme of a profession if we are being honest, once it becomes as trivial and widespread of a skill as any other basic piece of modern computer literacy. At one point in the transition from analog to digital, people hired others who could use word processors and other such computer tools on their behalf. They might be formally employed as a secretary or assistant but in either case that was the role at a time: an “I dictate you email” sort of arrangement you occasionally still see today if you work with any senior silent generation folks still. But over time all those others who might have hired someone like this learned how to check their own email, and write their own documents, and make their own slide decks, and this obviated a lot of extra jobs along the way.
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No, there is deep hard to formalize knowledge one can gain with practice. Moreover, it is model-specific. A better name would be "prompt magician".
"We're sorry but this role is looking for someone with BrickBreak AI prompting experience and we don't think your experience in PONG-AI prompting is a fit here. We'll reach out if something comes up we think you would be a better fit for"