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The meme is referring to tech bros who equate text prompts to creating visual art. The person who put art on a rock is a digital artist showing that actual digital artists can still create art even without their digital tools.
For example, someone who does 3d modeling but never sculpted could could make something decent out of clay on the first try because they understand proportion.
Tech bro prompt engineers would not be able to apply their text prompts to other contexts.
Disagree. Prompt engineers can go find a human artist in the wild and use their text prompts in the same way to generate a piece of art. No need for any fancy tech.