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Can you please not do this here?

It's fine to ask questions and/or make substantive points thoughtfully, of course. But snarky oneliners, name-calling, etc., more or less poisons what we're trying for on the site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It’s the third and super rare evolution of prompt engineers, you only get it with level 40 context engineers. There’s a trick though: If you leave an egg in the day care, sometimes a shiny Agentic Engineer hatches!

ppl using agents for work

Prompt engineers who realized that nobody is buying their bullshit.

Cleaned up of hype, it's just a JavaScript developer who spends their time arguing with APIs in a more literal fashion than those before.

Think this is a natural extension of the commodification of SWEs over the last 10-20 years as the newest easy way to make six figures

Indeed. I can't fault people for wanting to give their careers a boost in these increasingly trying times. As someone who stepped into analytics just in time to catch the wave (10 years ago), I can understand why someone would want to hop aboard.

That said, I at least took the time to learn the maths.