𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘁 𝗜𝘀 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗔 𝗦𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘁 𝗜𝘀 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗔 𝗦𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹 You type what you want, the AI figures out the rest. That's not a skill, that's having a conversation with a tool. We've started calling ourselves prompt engineers, but knowing how to ask is not the same as knowing how to build. The real skill is knowing what to ask for, knowing if the answer is right, and knowing what the AI assumed. Prompting isn't the skill, judgment is. You need to know when the AI is wrong, know the questions to ask next, and know what assumptions the AI made. Those are engineering skills, not prompt skills. They took years to develop and are invisible in the prompt itself. Prompting is the input method, the skill is everything that surrounds it. Knowing what to ask for, knowing if the answer is right, and knowing what the AI assumed are key. These are not prompt skills, they are the same skills developers have always needed. The input method changed, the judgment required did not. Calling prompting a skill has real consequences, it can lead to junior developers who can produce output quickly but catch problems slowly. We need to stop conflating prompting and judgment. We're not prompt engineers, we're developers who use AI as a tool. Source: https://dev.to/harsh2644/the-prompt-is-not-a-skill-and-we-need-to-stop-pretending-3m18 Optional learning community: https://t.me/GyaanSetuAi