As you know, many AR/MR developers left the field last year to become prompt engineers. I heard some bad news today, though. Apparently A.I. is starting to put prompt engineers out of work.
A.I. is now being used to take normal written commands — sometimes called “natural” language – sometimes called by non-specialists “language” — and processing it into more effective generative A.I. prompts. There’s even a rumor circulating that some of the prompts being used to train this new generation of A.I. come from the prompt engineers themselves. As if every time they use a prompt, it is somehow being recorded.
Can big tech really get away with stealing other people’s work and using it to turn a profit like this?
On the other hand, my friend Miroslav, a crypto manager from Zagreb, says these concerns are overblown. While some entry level prompt engineering jobs might go away, he told me, A.I. can never replace the more sophisticated prompt engineering roles that aren’t strictly learned by rote off of a YouTube channel.
“A.I. simply doesn’t have the emotional intelligence to perform advanced tasks like creating instructional YouTube videos about prompt engineering. Content creation jobs like these will always be safe.”
