Analysis of 4,222 AI company job listings finds zero prompt engineer roles
Competitive_Travel16 · reddit · 2026-10-21
A Reddit-shared 12-minute video analyzes 4,222 job listings from 14 AI companies. The headline finding: not a single prompt engineer role, suggesting the once-hyped job title has effectively vanished as AI companies hire for traditional engineering and research skills instead.
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