alt Hacker NewsThe skill isn't "prompting", it is figuring out what to do, validating that it works the way you want, and thinking about how to best support future iterations of things you might want to do.
Which, not coincidentally, is pretty much the same description as what the job was already about.
I know, but even given that I really don’t think it’s that hard, and certainly not as hard as regular pre-AI software engineering.
We all like to act like “the hard part was figuring out what we want”, but I don’t think I really buy that anymore. Even when I really half-ass Claude prompts, it still usually figures out what I want well enough, and when it doesn’t it usually does once I give it correction.