Paul Barnhurst warns that prompt engineering jobs, some paying $250k a year, are becoming obsolete as AI models handle complex tasks with minimal guidance. He fed one detailed prompt into a model and got a polished financial analysis with three tower options, showing how quickly the skill is losing its edge.
Prompting is no longer the skill people need. If you were paid $250,000 a year to be a prompt engineer, odds are your job's in trouble. Hate to break it to you. What I want to share when you speak of that, so I did a couple models and let me see which one this is. This model, I used a really detailed best practice prompt, like a page and a half. And so I got a cover page. I got this lease versus buy decision. Option 1 was renew the current lease. Option 2 was lease a new tower. Option 3 is buy the tower outright.
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