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GenAI is here and growing at an incredible rate, since it began in the early 2020’s. In the current time a half decade later, GenAI is a common household topic. My last blog posts had entertained the topic of GenAI in education as it had begun halfway into my higher education. This post will explore a deeper GenAI topic in business technology. SDSU has introduced it to us students as “Prompt Engineering”.

Through my educational journey, I never thought I would be confronted with “Prompt Engineering”. What this process is includes providing deep questions or instructions to GenAI. I have spoken with professors at SDSU and internal IT at the state university and this is what I learned. GenAI was not initially seen as the effective tool it is now. We have now moved into a new phase of its use in a very productive manner.

During the Spring semester of 2025, to my understanding professors are encouraged to express use of GenAI in their course or at least teach/promote GenAI. Some of the professors I had spoken with had distaste for GenAI, while some were very happy to use it. For example, one of my programming professors had exampled the use of Prompt Engineering and creating effective study material through many GenAI’s available today.

So what really is Prompt Engineering? Its not a new technology. Well, actually a better use of new GenAI models that have been released in recent years. Prompt engineering is designing effective prompts to allow GenAI to give precise and relevant responses to the user. As a student, why would we want to better use such a technology?

As a student of Fowler business college within SDSU, its good to understand its advantage in the workplace. In a article by Grand View Research, the global prompt engineering market is worth over 200 million and expected at 2 billion by 2030. (https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/prompt-engineering-market-report) and another statistic report by statista includes the insight of 72% of enterprises will have a component or use of GenAI in some form. (https://www.statista.com/statistics/1545783/ai-adoption-among-organizations-worldwide/)

SDSU is simply allowing students the chance to understand GenAI more than just a study tool but as a effective work tool. As professors also exclaimed that they are guilty of using GenAI to increase workflow (outside and inside college, i.e. workplace and career). Which as this generation of students exit college with a now promoted view on GenAI there is a great chance we see many adaptations in GenAI inside many careers of the future.

So what’s my point? GenAI is reshaping higher education, and its simply changing the roles of many in their careers. As time goes by, myself and this generation of students will access GenAI as a partner and tool to assist in many tasks we may face in our careers. Is this a bad thing? Will the job market adapt to GenAI or will it shrink the job market? Who or what jobs will allow GenAI? These are questions I enlist to you and invoke thought as we enter this half decade of GenAI.