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Who would have known? Asking AI things was never a real job?!

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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 90 points 2 months ago

I am a prompt engineer, I show up to work on time

[–] mPony@kbin.earth 40 points 2 months ago

The audacity of using the word "engineer" is galling enough.

[–] Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 2 months ago (3 children)

This article also does not provide any proof that prompt engineer was not a real job.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It does a pretty poor job explaining itself, at all. Ironically, it probably would have behooved the author to have used an AI to proofread this.

The hype did not magic the jobs into existence. Because this was all part of marketing chatbots to the enterprise. They wanted companies to believe in the magic of chatbots.

This is a full paragraph from the article. What the fuck is this trying to say? Who is "they"? Literally no questions were answered by this article.

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

maybe "they" refers to those who have most to gain from all the ai bullshit. So likely executives in chatgpt for example. If the writers named something directly it could leave them open for lawsuit if things go badly

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 3 points 2 months ago

If the writers named something directly it could leave them open for lawsuit if things go badly

So far, I don't think the author is capable of writing something coherent enough to be considered libel.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago (4 children)

How do you prove a negative?

[–] LumpyPancakes@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago

A multimeter on DC.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean, a few months back somebody posted a linkedin, mad because they were looking for a prompt engineer, so apparently it is a real job.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Sounds like a project manager that can talk to engineers....

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago

Well, it IS linkedin, so it's mostly just corpos bullshitting each other anyway.

[–] _druid@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

I have people skills!

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

In this case? Pretty easily with the right data. Though I think an opinion poll would be more interesting

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 0 points 2 months ago

By using the definition of the word or asking people for their opinion

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 10 points 2 months ago

There are already tools and other AI to write the prompt for you. The prompt engineer is automated out of their job.

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 months ago

Real or not, I still say not calling it "AI Wrangler" is a major miss...

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Maybe not just prompt engineer, but that skill will be required among other to effectively utilize many AI tools since the low-code/no-code capabilities are not quite there yet.