I could not agree less with the idea of prompt engineering being an emerging field, or really one that will be here more than a couple of years at best. Right now it’s a stopgap needed because LLMs aren’t actually good enough to translate conversational English into the expected intent. The idea that prompt engineering is here to stay suggests a massive and fundamental inability to conceive of the most likely realities of an actual AI-assisted near future.

I have no idea how someone can simultaneously believe AI is going to become unimaginably capable, but also that that in order to effectively use this extraordinarily capable AI, we will need a highly skilled human to interface with it. If AI really is that capable, it will be able to ask the right questions back and solicit feedback such that it can give satisfactory results to even the lowest common denominator of users.