Despite people in the role raking in six-figure salaries, potential employers often welcome candidates who don’t come from a tech background or have any coding skills. As Tesla’s former head of A.I. Andrei Kaparthy put it: “The hottest new programming language is English.”
The shift in the tech careers landscape comes amid a heated race for the top spot in the A.I. market, which intensified in recent months after OpenAI’s ChatGPT was labeled a game changer.
Google moved to launch Bard, its chatbot competitor, soon after Microsoft revealed Bing was being revamped to incorporate ChatGPT, in which the tech giant is investing $10 billion. Tesla has joined the race with its Tesla Bot, and Chinese search engine giant Baidu is developing its own version, called Ernie Bot.
Prompt engineer postings at the time of writing range from contracted remote work for $200 an hour to full-time positions paying up to $335,000.
Comments are closed.