The general Google search analogy is correct and a potential fate that prompt engineering may succumb to. Though knowing how to create Google search queries is a differentiator in software engineering today, just not its own job category.
Another analogy worth consideration is that of SQL and the database. Prompt engineering could become the "SQL" for large language models who are exposed as APIs--like the OpenAI API, which lets you programmatically access GPT-3 via prompts.
Am interested in seeing how many startups are created as convenient interfaces on top of the OpenAI API now that ChatGPT awareness has rapidly spread.
It is difficult to predict exactly how the job market will evolve over the next five years, but it is likely that the role of a prompt engineer will continue to be in demand as the use of large language models becomes more widespread in various industries. With the increasing interest and development in natural language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, there is a growing need for experts who can design and craft prompts that can harness the power of these models to solve real-world problems.
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The general Google search analogy is correct and a potential fate that prompt engineering may succumb to. Though knowing how to create Google search queries is a differentiator in software engineering today, just not its own job category.
Another analogy worth consideration is that of SQL and the database. Prompt engineering could become the "SQL" for large language models who are exposed as APIs--like the OpenAI API, which lets you programmatically access GPT-3 via prompts.
Am interested in seeing how many startups are created as convenient interfaces on top of the OpenAI API now that ChatGPT awareness has rapidly spread.