Which raises a larger question: Did prompt engineering roles ever truly exist?

All experts interviewed for this piece were skeptical. The market itself was real enough: The North American prompt engineering market was valued at $75.5 million in 2023, with a compound annual growth rate of 32.8%. But whether that translated into formally titled roles is another matter.

… How can the market be “real enough” if we can’t tell if any jobs actually existed? Maybe I just don’t know enough about economics.

It’s not much of a dystopia, and it certainly doesn’t seem to end that way, but the animated movie Robots just keeps feeling more and more relevant.