On the discussion of job replacement due to A.I, the term “prompt engineer” pops up frequently when mentioning new jobs that will arise due to it.
Isn’t prompt engineering just typing questions? How is it difficult enough for it to be a desired job in the market?
Garbage in, garbage out.
A lot of technical jobs are like this. Knowing what makes good input and being able to judge good output. You could say coding is just typing in lines of code. Or what other types of engineering are just trying different architectures, geometries, or values until something works.
Its not necessarily “difficult”, but a lot of jobs are just applying knowledge of context and then polishing an output for use. In a future prompt engineer role you might be editing copy for a chosen audience, or finding a useful way to organize the input so that a good output takes an hour to land on, instead of a week.
I guess the long answer is “we don’t know”, but the short answer is that yes, the smart money seems to be having some knowledge of how to use AI might be useful in your career, ten years from now.
Do we know any example of companies hiring prompt engineers today?
I don’t know how futuristic the boom of the prompt engineering job is, but the negative side (layoffs supposedly due to A.I, even though they can just be lying and it’s just layoff to layoff) is already happening, so I’m just trying to find this good side while the bad is happening now.
As the other person said, are you talking about engineering? Or about marketing roles expressly using AI to create content? I’m sure there are marketing roles with AI prompt writing roles open now.
As for engineering roles? Yeah lots of jobs for Ai researchers if you have a degree in data science or the like.
Its not really a job, yet.