The gamble is that you can cruise on the senior engineer’s diminishing understanding for a few years until models become good enough that you don’t need any humans in the loop and you can fire all those expensive seniors.

The tragedy is having a bunch of those senior engineers writing blog posts and what not of how productive they are, without realising that it means business now needs less of them.

I suppose that if you don’t believe that models will be good enough to work completely without senior engineer help, positioning yourself as a master prompter is a good move to improve your chances of not getting fired.

Even so, it literally means as business owner I need less warm bodies to write prompts.

Will we now have leetcode of prompt writing?

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