Prompt engineering emerged as a hot new skill when LLMs first became widely available. Companies hired prompt engineers to craft the perfect instructions that would coax the best outputs from AI models.

But as models have improved, they've become much better at understanding intent from natural language. The elaborate prompting techniques that were once necessary are becoming less important.

The trend is clear: as AI gets smarter, the skill of "talking to AI" becomes less specialized. What remains valuable is domain expertise — knowing what to ask for, not how to ask for it.

Prompt engineering may be the fastest-rising and fastest-falling job title in tech history.