Prompt engineering—crafting the sharpest queries to get the best answers out of ChatGPT or another generative AI chatbot—is a new type of job.
To find out, WSJ’s Joanna Stern applied to be one.
Photo illustration: The Wall Street JournalMy father was a prompt engineer, like his father before him.
I come from a long line of people who toiled day and night, chatting with generative-AI chatbots.
Prompt engineering is a totally new job that would have sounded crazy even a year ago.
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WSJ’s Joanna Stern