That Hot 'Prompt Engineer' Job From Last Year? It's Already Obsolete.
Stop Trying to Be an 'AI Expert.' The Real Job in 2025 is Being an 'AI Enabler.' Do you remember 2024? I know it was just a year ago, but in AI time, that feels like a different century. It was a wild time, when we all thought the most important skill of the future was learning how to talk to a computer program like it was a brilliant but very stubborn dog. The hottest job on the planet was "Prompt Engineer." Today, that job title is about as useful as a screen door on a submarine. Why? Because the AI just… got it. It grew up. This big change also killed another huge trend from last year: building your own AI. Back in '24, the coolest thing you could do was spend a fortune and give your developers a year's worth of headaches to "fine-tune" your own special version of an AI. Now, to be fair, this isn't completely dead. The super-secure, paranoid industries like banking and finance sometimes still do this. But for the other 99% of the worl...