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Now on to the show. Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Friday, May 2nd.

I'm Victoria Craig for the Wall Street Journal. For a long time, tech jobs were the envy of many

American workers. Their high pay, generous benefits, and built-in at-work luxuries lured many to the sector. But times are changing.

And as we'll find out in today's show, the pace of that change is rapid, and it's steering

those once-lux jobs into more mundane territory. But first, looking for a new job can be a

frustrating experience for almost anyone.

It's become especially so, though, for people in the tech industry.

That's because job titles are getting more varied, opaque, and overlapping than ever before.

And in some cases, they're already obsolete.

Case in point, prompt engineer.

A job that our reporter Isabel Bousquet has been

writing about for WSJ's CIO journal. Isabel, tell us first what this particular job actually is.

Prompt engineering, it was a job title that emerged around two years ago, and the idea of a prompt

engineer is that large language models are a little finicky

about delivering the right output, the right information that you might want. So people have had to

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