From Bing to Bard, chatbots are suddenly everywhere. In fact, their ubiquity is such that it's given rapid rise to an entirely new profession: prompt engineering. Described in layperson's terms as "AI whisperers," prompt engineers understand language learning models well enough to coax the best "output," or responses, from conversational chatbots. The skill which, in addition to tech, is in demand in the financial, legal and insurance fields can command as much as $335,000 per year. Despite the job title, prompt engineers needn't actually have engineering degrees, and often stem from humanities backgrounds. Why would anyone do tedious dev work when they can simply be ai prompters? https://archive.is/c2f6l
I would argue you do need somewhat of a STEM background to actually understand anything an LLM is doing even at high level. I guess it can be extremely high level to someone without stem knowledge. Agree with the other points but unsure why it discounts STEM
It’s like any other job if you have the skills you do that job. My roommate makes more than I do and he makes commission on selling Electrical Panels, there are truck drivers that make 200k and listen to books on tape all day, and then there’s my friend who took over the family business of a taco shop making more than all of them.
damn how much is taco guy making? Very well said though, some people in jobs lots of SWEs might look down on are sometimes making 5x as much
Now I want some tacos and my own taco stand.
This feels like a red flag / smell for the whole thing. When you create a thing that can only be controlled by figuring out how to “coax” it to do what you need, it seems like maybe we are getting a little ahead of ourselves.
I’d do the tedious work for 335K
I have to work my ass off for even 100k lol