Chapter 16
What Engineers Become
There is a job title that has circulated in the industry since 2023, “prompt engineer,” that captured the imagination of recruiters, career coaches, and career-advice commentators before quietly fading from serious engineering discourse. The trajectory of the title is instructive. Indeed reported that searches for “prompt engineer” surged from two per million total U.S. job searches in January 2023 to 144 per million by April of that year, then collapsed to a plateau of twenty to thirty per million, where they have remained. An analysis of LinkedIn job postings found seventy-two prompt engineer positions out of more than twenty thousand AI-related postings, representing 0.35 percent of the AI job market. A Microsoft-commissioned ...
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