Day 49 · Just a Prompt Engineer

A slow English story about Back to work after the visit, meetings, a backlog, and just directing my AI assistant. 14 simple sentences. Word by word. About 14 minutes. 📝 Today's sentences ① Yesterday I saw my friend off. He flew back to China. ② I wanted to go back to China too. But as an adult, it's time to go back to work. ③ Because of my three days off, my work piled up. Now I've got a huge backlog. ④ This morning I had three meetings back-to-back. ⑤ One with QA, one with our contractor in India, and our team standup. ⑥ So I got nothing done all morning. ⑦ After lunch, I finally got into work mode. ⑧ I went through my email, tickets, and team channel. ⑨ I replied to every message, one by one. ⑩ Then I sorted out my priorities. ⑪ I synced up with my mentor. ⑫ And then it was back to my day-to-day coding. ⑬ Well, really, I just told my best assistant Claude what to do. ⑭ I'm basically a prompt engineer now. 🔑 Vocabulary • saw my friend off /sɔː maɪ frend ɔːf/ • piled up /paɪld ʌp/ • backlog /ˈbæklɒɡ/ • back-to-back /ˌbæk tə ˈbæk/ • contractor /ˈkɒntræktər/ • standup /ˈstændʌp/ • got nothing done /ɡɒt ˈnʌθɪŋ dʌn/ • work mode /wɜːrk moʊd/ • one by one /wʌn baɪ wʌn/ • priorities /praɪˈɔːrətiz/ • synced up /sɪŋkt ʌp/ • day-to-day /ˌdeɪ tə ˈdeɪ/ • prompt engineer /prɒmpt ˌendʒɪˈnɪr/ 🎧 New episode every weekday Subscribe so you don't miss the next sentence.