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It’s not even a real job today, let alone a “profession of the future.”
By the way, if — according to some Polish physics professor — today’s AI already has the intelligence of an eight-year-old child, and according to other myths, within 5 (maybe 10) years it will surpass us intellectually, achieve AGI, “singularity,” and all those other buzzwords invented by ignorant self-promoters and opportunists feeding off the AI hype (which may ultimately backfire on real AI research and reality itself!) —
then why on earth would we need “prompts”?

Would a superintelligence really require short courses to teach people how to ask it simple questions?
That’s a contradiction the egotists with titles outside computer science or AI — hungry for media attention — completely fail to see.

Calling “prompt engineering” the profession of the future is like calling “talking politely to our calculator” a new field of science. If AI is supposedly about to reach human-level intelligence — even superintelligence — why would we need courses on how to talk to it? A truly intelligent system doesn’t need carefully crafted commands, it needs understanding — something that many of its loudest prophets clearly lack.
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Worth reading: If you want to understand why this so-called “profession” quickly turned into marketing hype, these articles are a good starting point.
They show how easily the tech media can confuse AI literacy with AI mysticism:

1. AI 'prompt engineer' jobs can pay up to $375,000 a year and don't always require a background in tech - https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-prompt-engineer-jobs-pay-salary-requirements-no-tech-background-2023-3?IR=T

2. AI prompt engineering: learn how not to ask a chatbot a silly question https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/29/ai-prompt-engineering-chatbot-questions-art-writing-dalle-midjourney-chatgpt-bard

3. Is the AI Bubble About to Burst: MIT Study finds 95% Gen AI Startups are failing - https://heysourin.medium.com/is-the-ai-bubble-about-to-burst-dd90c85b9e7a