From creative tasks to customer service, modern AI tools like Midjourney and ChatGPT are threatening the existence of many careers. Simultaneously, however, they’ve also created an industry demand for a new kind of job: prompt engineering. What is a prompt, you ask? The text-based input that you give a natural language AI like ChatGPT to perform tasks. That’s right — even though just about anyone can talk to a chatbot in plain English, there’s a growing demand for professionals that can engineer their prompts just right to achieve a particular goal.
Prompt engineering has become a career virtually overnight over the past few months, with skilled individuals bagging handsome salaries just for their language skills. So in this article, let’s take a closer look at prompt engineering, what it looks like, and how you can become better at it to potentially even earn a living.