Prompt Engineer Finally Makes Enough to Buy a Mercedes, AI Meme Circulates
Ajkrouse · reddit · 2026-09-17
A Reddit user shared a meme joking that the "prompt engineer" has finally earned enough money to buy a Mercedes.
The joke captures the AI community's ambivalence about prompt engineering as a profession: once hyped as a lucrative new career, it is now a running gag as models get better and prompting gets easier.
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