What’s the best path to become a prompt engineer?

If you mean "how can I get good at prompting and do it in my existing job" - then check the prompting section I put together here: https://llm-utils.org/AI+Learning+Curation#Software%20Engine...

But if you mean "how can I get a full time job where I just do prompt writing" - Unfortunately I'm not quite convinced it's a real role yet. It was more of a marketing thing that newspapers and others wanted to hype up. For example this https://jobs.lever.co/Anthropic/e3cde481-d446-460f-b576-93ca... was the main job posting most news articles about 'prompt engineering' referred to when talking about the big salaries, but if you actually look at what it involves:

  > Discover, test, and document best practices for a wide range of tasks relevant to our customers.

  (This is largely a customer success role)

  > Build up a library of high quality prompts or prompt chains to accomplish a variety of tasks, with an easy guide to help users search for the one that meets their needs.

  (Prompt engineering and writing)

  > Build a set of tutorials and interactive tools that teach the art of prompt engineering to our customers.

  (This is largely a software engineering role)

  > Work with large enterprise customers on their prompting strategies.

  (This is largely an enterprise customer success role)

It's more of a software engineering + enterprise customer success role, from what I can see.

That said, I've seen $25/hr freelance jobs that are pure prompt writing, though not 40/hrs a week.

If you want to do it because you love writing prompts, I expect that the job roles that'll spend the most time of their day writing prompts will be software engineers at companies that use GPT-4 in production (so Notion, Mem, Speak, Descript, Retool, Quora, Zapier, Stripe).

Better off to probably start or join an ai automation company. I'm doing this, basically create chat bots that interface with zapier and other APIs via a workflow manager, example: If you receive a missed call on your business line, automatically text them and chat through sms. Automate scheduling and reminders for doctors offices, etc. Niche down and go hard.

Microsoft has come out with this certification

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/certifications/azure-ai-en...

I don’t know how good it really is but there is very little like it right now so that would be a reason to go for it.

That job title is just a meme.

But if you want prompting experience with whatever work you do, just play with Stable Diffusion and LLaMA finetunes.

Make some sick dope ass prompts. Then you'll get a $200k job as Sr Prompt Engineer.