Prompt Engineer — The Most Overhyped Job of the Decade

Thomas Baumgartner
5 min readJun 4, 2023

And why everyone should nevertheless be familiar with writing AI prompts.

There are companies who offer $ 375 k per year to people who tell an artificial intelligence what to do — so-called prompt engineers.

Should you quit your job to become one of these high-paid AI whisperers? If you’re looking for a quick buck, maybe. If you still want to have a job five years from now, hold your horses.

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Thomas Baumgartner

Physicist (PhD), engineer, software developer, data manager / analysist, photographer, musician, and (as of late) writer. Lives in Vienna, Austria.