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What is a prompt engineer anyway?

Why is this emerging engineering role so often misunderstood?
August 15, 2024

The rise of powerful large language models (LLMs) and other AI models have created a whole host of new career paths and opportunities. 

Chief AI Officers and machine learning engineers are more in demand than ever before. Now prompt engineers are the latest role attracting a lot of buzz.

While some headlines tout six figure salaries available to prompt engineers without a STEM degree, the situation is a little more complex on the ground. Let’s look at what a prompt engineer does, the path to becoming one, and what sort of salary you can expect.

What is prompt engineering?

Large language models are supercharged autocomplete machines.

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