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Wall Street Journal: Prompt Engineering is already "obsolete" as job (link in body). This is an important indicator how fast the market is changing and why you need to be extremely skeptical of "Gen AI" and bootcamps pivoting from SWE to AI.

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u/BigCardiologist3733 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

this career is a scam

u/michaelnovati replied · DELETED · archived copy
Yeah :S. There are people it's still for, but it's a small number and there's no systematic program to do it. My friend said something like 'The top 1% of people who go to college don't need college. College is for the 99%'. A similar thing applies here. Bootcamps are structured and generic AND the top 1% of people who want to become SWEs don't need them either. If the 99% did well enough to justify the existence, then maybe they keep going - dreams of recruiting the 1% to build reputation so that the 99% go and get generic outcomes. But the 99% is basically not going. So a school could exist as a special place for the 1%, but that kind of place is like a founder and a couple staff, not something marketing on LinkedIn.