Don't Hire a Prompt Engineer. Hire Someone Who Owns the Process

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<p>If you run a business and you are thinking about hiring a prompt engineer, stop. The skill you are trying to buy is not writing clever instructions to a chatbot. The skill you need is someone who can take one messy process in your business, own it end to end, and be answerable when it breaks. Prompting is about two weeks of that person's learning curve. The other eleven and a half months is process.</p> <p>I say this as someone who builds automation systems for a living. It would be convenient for me to tell you the opposite. But I have watched enough of these systems fail in real businesse

Problem

<p>If you run a business and you are thinking about hiring a prompt engineer, stop. The skill you are trying to buy is not writing clever instructions to a chatbot. The skill you need is someone who can take one messy process in your business, own it end to end, and be answerable when it breaks. Prompting is about two weeks of that person's learning curve. The other eleven and a half months is process.</p> <p>I say this as someone who builds automation systems for a living. It would be convenient for me to tell you the opposite. But I have watched enough of these systems fail in real businesse

Outcome

<p>If you run a business and you are thinking about hiring a prompt engineer, stop. The skill you are trying to buy is not writing clever instructions to a chatbot. The skill you need is someone who can take one messy process in your business, own it end to end, and be answerable when it breaks. Prompting is about two weeks of that person's learning curve. The other eleven and a half months is process.</p> <p>I say this as someone who builds automation systems for a living. It would be convenient for me to tell you the opposite. But I have watched enough of these systems fail in real businesse

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Don't Hire a Prompt Engineer. Hire Someone Who Owns the Process

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