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Prompt engineering is a skill, not a job

The difference between skills and jobs

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Dave Friedman
Feb 18, 2023
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There has been a lot of speculation lately about prompt engineering. People have started to claim that ‘prompt engineer’ is the job of our AI-enabled future. I don’t think this is correct. Prompt engineering is a skill. It will be an increasingly valuable one, but it will be subsumed into approximatley all white collar knowledge work over the next few y…

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