NPR. It's jobs Friday.

The best time of month for the horn of the of the air variety.

I never thought my life it involves so much cheering over the airhorns but here we are.

That's not what you thought economics was going to be all about but you know that's how we roll.

Well you know jobs Friday of course is this time of the month where we look at how the economy is working for real people and spotlight trends in the job market.

Yeah, according to the latest jobs report, the economy added 2006,000 jobs in June, and the unemployment rate ticked up from 4% to 4.1%.

It's the first time it's reached that level in close to three years.

So overall, the numbers suggest a modest

cool down in the labor market. Although this Friday we're focusing on a job that

does not seem to be cooling down and it's one that I'm willing to bet many of you have never even heard of.

Prompt engineer. Specifically AI prompt engineer.

Nick Bunker is an economist for the jobs listing site indeed. He's also a friend of the show and Nick says

posts calling for prompt engineers didn't seem to even exist until very recently.

So when I look back it does not register in any real material way until late fall, early winter of 2022.

And yet, Nick says demand for prompt engineers has increased about tenfold in the past year.

Yes, it is a very rapid growth. There's still very, very few of these jobs, but've grown very very rapidly and this is

something we actually see in the context of all generative AI job postings.

Prompt engineers are in demand with some employers advertising six-figure salaries but what

exactly do they do? This is the indicator from Planet Money I'm Darren Woods and

I'm Adrian Ma. Today on the show we find out by talking to a man who became a

prompt engineer pretty much by accident.

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