Universities should create prompt engineering course starting September for all freshmen

Universities should create prompt engineering course starting September for all freshmen | you should stop everything else you're doing in the university right now and design a course for freshman men and women uh uh who starting in September, which is a prompt engineering class

you should stop everything else you're doing in the university right now and design a course for freshman men and women uh uh who starting in September, which is a prompt engineering class

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