prompt engineer

A practitioner who specializes in prompt engineeringprompt engineering, n.: The skill of writing requests to an AI — picking the words, examples, format and background information it receives — so that it reliably gives the result you want, without retraining it.: designing, testing and maintaining the instructions, examples and context given to large language modelslarge language model, n.: A computer program trained on enormous amounts of text to predict the words that come next. At vast scale, that simple skill lets it chat, answer questions, translate, summarize and write code. so that they perform tasks reliably. The work includes writing system promptssystem prompt, n.: Background instructions given to a chatbot before the conversation starts, setting its role, rules, tone and tools. Users usually never see it, but it shapes every reply., building evaluation sets to compare prompt variants, diagnosing failure modes and documenting model quirks. In 2023 the title became an emblem of the generative-AI boom, with well-publicized job postings offering salaries above US$300,000 and predictions that it would be the job of the decade; skeptics countered that better models would make prompting easy or automatic. By 2025 the skills had largely been absorbed into software, product and research roles, and attention had shifted to context engineeringcontext engineering, n.: Managing an AI model's reading material: choosing, trimming and arranging the instructions, documents, tool results and memories it is given on every turn, so that it has what the task needs and little else. and agent design.

We don't hire prompt engineers anymore; every engineer is expected to write and evaluate prompts.