An OpenAI employee says prompt engineering is not the skill of the future — but knowing how to talk to humans will be

• An OpenAI employee says that prompt engineering is no different than communicating with humans.
• Reading, writing, and speaking will be the skills that truly matter in 2024, the worker wrote on X. 
• Other AI observers think learning how to talk to ChatGPT could even help humans communicate better.

You may be able to get paid well over six figures if you're a prompt engineer — an expert in coaxing AI models behind tools like ChatGPT to produce the best outputs. But an OpenAI employee says that the skill isn't as revolutionary as it seems.