38-year-old AI prompt engineer makes over $100,000 a year—without a tech degree: ‘Don’t underestimate’ yourself

Allison Harbin jokes that she started working in artificial intelligence by accident. 

Harbin earned a doctoral degree in art history from Rutgers University in 2017 and spent much of her twenties and thirties working in higher education, intending to become a professor.

Then, in 2023, she was recruited to work on Gemini, Google’s generative AI chatbot, designing and refining its search engine responses. She joined the project in October 2023, figuring it would be an exciting opportunity to…