*Someone on [HN asked](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36541966) "What’s the best path to become a prompt engineer?" My answer was as follows.* If you mean "how can I get good at prompting and do it in my existing job" - then [check the prompting section here.](https://llm-utils.org/AI+Learning+Curation#Software%20Engineer%20focused) **But if you mean "how can I get a full time job where I just do prompt writing"... Unfortunately I'm not quite convinced it's a real role yet.** It was more of a marketing thing that newspapers and others wanted to hype up. For example this [Prompt Engineer and Librarian $250-375K role at Anthropic](https://jobs.lever.co/Anthropic/e3cde481-d446-460f-b576-93cab67bd1ed) was the main job posting most news articles about 'prompt engineering' referred to when talking about the big salaries, but if you actually look at what it involves: > Discover, test, and document best practices for a wide range of tasks relevant to our customers. (This is largely a customer success role) > Build up a library of high quality prompts or prompt chains to accomplish a variety of tasks, with an easy guide to help users search for the one that meets their needs. (Prompt engineering and writing) > Build a set of tutorials and interactive tools that teach the art of prompt engineering to our customers. (This is largely a software engineering role) > Work with large enterprise customers on their prompting strategies. (This is largely an enterprise customer success role) It's more of a software engineering + enterprise customer success role, from what I can see. That said, I've seen $25/hr freelance jobs that are pure prompt writing, though not 40/hrs a week. If you want to do it because you love writing prompts, I expect that the job roles that'll spend the most time of their day writing prompts will be software engineers at companies that use GPT-4 in production (so Notion, Mem, Speak, Descript, Retool, Quora, Zapier, Stripe). But if you're expecting a highly paid full-time role where the only experience required is to be world-class at prompt writing, I don't think that's a real role you can aim at yet. (It might still be in the future, though AIs that write prompts might cover most people's needs, and maybe there'll be a one-off that a company hires – I could definitely see a company hiring that as a sort of brand ambassador/social media marketing + Prompt Writing hybrid role, but then that'll still be not pure prompt writing.)