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Software engineers write code for machines, not humans. As AI blurs human-machine interaction, marketers and other professionals are adopting prompt engineering, learning to write instructions for algorithms the way they'd write for people.

Software engineers write code for machines, not humans. As AI blurs human-machine interaction, marketers and other professionals are adopting prompt engineering, learning to write instructions for algorithms the way they'd write for people.
I am of the opinion that every single software engineer, everybody who writes code is a writer. They just have an audience that is not a human. And the more, the more we get into the whole AI world where you can't really tell, the Turing test doesn't work anymore, and you're not really sure who you're interacting with. I've seen people who work in marketing who are not coders starting to think kind of algorithmically. They're starting to think in instructional ways because now they have ChatGPT that where if they find the right prompt, ChatGPT is going to do their 4-hour work in like 20 seconds. So they're trying to figure out how to get to the right prompt so they can save 3 hours and a half, right? So people are thinking more about how can I instruct the machine in a writerly way, in a way that is like a human expressing something to another human, which is really interesting intersection here. But from coder to writer was like, how can I give people instructions without making it like explicit, follow these kinds of statement things?

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