[getToTheChopin]

Prompt engineering will become an important skill -- i.e., finding the right words and ways to harness the power of generative AI.

Learning to stitch together AI tools (using the output from one tool as an input into another tool) seems like it will be in demand as well.

[gautambay]

The point about stitching together resonates.

[throwawaysleep]

Plumbing is already a ton of software engineering jobs.

[fragmede]

for better or worse, we're going to become digital secretaries rather than digital plumbers, duty bound to interact with LLMs and take notes on their behalf.

[fuzztester]

Taping together might be a better analogy. Duct tape ... mumble mumble ... Rube Goldberg machines ... mumble mumble ... whack-a-mole, er, whack-a-bug ...

[mriet]

At some point, hopefully we'll also figure out how to get AI to catch itself when it makes bugs. This will also be an important skill.

Or otherwise to recognize what type of bugs the AI will make -- like the way you know what type of bugs junior engineers will make.