The prompt engineer title jumped to roughly 1,000 SF workers in 2023
Nancy Xu · Moonhub’s Nancy Xu Unveils the AI Recruiter That’s Beating LinkedIn · Oct 18, 2023 · at 40:46
Nancy Xu is the founder and CEO of Moonhub. She discusses tech worker job title trends derived from Moonhub's dataset.
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“If you look at the data, it's, like, basically until twenty-twenty-three, no one called themselves a prompt engineer, and then twenty-twenty-three, all of a sudden, a thousand people in SF are now a prompt engineer”
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