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A pattern is emerging across teams, products, and markets — and it changes how serious people should think about why prompt engineering is becoming a real profession.
The shift began quietly. A handful of teams, working in parallel and mostly unaware of each other, arrived at similar conclusions: the old approach optimized for a constraint that no longer binds. Hardware got cheaper. Models got smaller.…
If you talk to the practitioners actually shipping in this space, they sound notably less excited and notably more confident than the hype cycle suggests. That contrast — quieter, more grounded enthusiasm — is usually the signal you want.
The shift began quietly. A handful of teams, working in parallel and mostly unaware of each other, arrived at similar conclusions: the old approach optimized for a constraint that no longer binds. Hardware got cheaper. Models got smaller.…
The biggest mistake will be treating this as a tooling question when it's actually a strategy question. Tools change. The underlying shift in customer expectations is what compounds.
A pattern is emerging across teams, products, and markets — and it changes how serious people should think about why prompt engineering is…