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Is prompt engineering a skill or a job?

The future belongs to those who can generate good prompts, but does that mean it's a job?

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Dave Friedman
Mar 06, 2023
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Back in the late ‘90s and early 2000s, there was a cottage industry of search engine specialists who devised arcane Boolean searches to be used with Google. But as Google’s search technology improved, and Google focused its attention on serving a large audience to advertisers, Boolean searchers became, if not quite deprecated, less of a focus for Google…

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