Prompt Engineer
prompt en-juh-NEERnoun
What it means
A job title for people who ask questions clearly, a skill previously expected of everyone.
What it actually means
Someone who types carefully.
How it is used in a sentence
"We're hiring a senior prompt engineer to own the model layer."
Filed under
Digital Existentialism — Ideas that were briefly worth billions, explained by people who are briefly employed.
Bafflegab — The phrase means nothing. We are ridiculing it.
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Describes any product containing a text box, a subscription, and a large language model mentioned within earshot of whoever is funding it.
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