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How artificial intelligence is reshaping the tools, teams, and economics of building software.

A crisp job title card reading Prompt Engineer, half dissolving into scattered pixels and lines of plain configuration code, on a dark technical background with cyan accents.
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Prompt Engineering Was a Job Title for Eighteen Months

Prompt engineering rose as a lucrative specialism and vanished within eighteen months. As models got better at inferring intent, the magic words stopped working and the real skill dissolved into ordinary product work.

6 Jul 2026