# 🔗 The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete - WSJ

- Author: @gurupanguji
- Date: 2025-04-29
- URL: https://gurupanguji.com/blog/2025/04/29/the-hottest-ai-job-of-2023-is-already-obsolete-wsj/
- Categories: link, ai
- Tags: ai, prompt, prompt-engineering

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> Two years ago, prompt engineering was one of the buzziest jobs in tech, [fetching salaries of up to $200,000](https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/talking-to-chatbots-is-now-a-200k-job-so-i-applied-258bd5f0?mod=article_inline) on the promise of becoming any company’s “AI Whisperer.”

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<p>This is something most people saw coming from afar. Today's LLM tools are fundamentally human-augmenters. Just like how there are people who who really know their <a href="https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-advanced-search-operators/?ref=gurupanguji.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="">google search operators</a>, there are going to be people who will leverage all the prompt incantations to augment themselves. And just like there are no google-search engineers in a company, there were never going to be prompt engineers for a company. </p>
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