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‘AI is already eating its own’: Prompt engineering is quickly going extinct (www.fastcompany.com)
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[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 4 points 3 days ago

Which raises a larger question: Did prompt engineering roles ever truly exist?

All experts interviewed for this piece were skeptical. The market itself was real enough: The North American prompt engineering market was valued at $75.5 million in 2023, with a compound annual growth rate of 32.8%. But whether that translated into formally titled roles is another matter.

.... How can the market be "real enough" if we can't tell if any jobs actually existed? Maybe I just don't know enough about economics.

[–] VagueAnodyneComments@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 4 days ago

wow so LLMs were just another dangerous anti-labor fad huh

if only this had been completely obvious to anyone who actually reads about how models work since a decade ago

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Hiring someone who's a "prompt engineer" is like hiring someone who says they're good at googling.

[–] thiseggowaffles@lemmy.zip 1 points 13 hours ago

I mean... Being good at Googling is a pretty necessary prerequisite to working in IT. It's like a sizeable portion of the job.

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The majority of people I've worked with are dog shit at looking up information. I'd be happy with "good at googling."

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I used to be good at googling. But then Google changed what googling did.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

and the tack on reddit trick has fallen to a fraction of it's former usefulness

[–] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 14 points 4 days ago

"Prompt engineering." 🤣

"AI" really brings out the goofies, and their even goofier targets lap it up.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 10 points 4 days ago

Hopefully “vibe coding” will be next.

[–] Asetru@feddit.org 4 points 3 days ago

Today, strong AI prompting is simply an expected skill, not a stand-alone role.

If a company tells me they expect me to be good at writing prompts at least I know I can dodge that bullet and just never ever work there. Nice.

[–] figjam@midwest.social 5 points 4 days ago

Now AI can write the prompts...

WHY