Is prompt engineer displacing data scientist as the 'sexiest job of the 21st century'?

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More than a decade ago, in a Harvard Business Review article, Thomas Davenport declared data scientist to be the "sexiest job of the 21st century". Today, in an age of generative artifical intelligence (AI), is "prompt engineer" about to assume that title?

What's already certain is that it's one of the hottest jobs around. Prompt engineering involves getting the best and most relevant answers from generative AI tools, and is both conversational, "but also programmatic with prompts embedded in code," fellow ZDNET contributor David Gerwitz explains. 

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