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this is not engineering

• simonw 3y ago
  Sure, in the same way that software engineering isn't engineering, if you want to be pedantic about the term "engineering".
  • shortrounddev 3y ago
    No, software engineering is. Writing prompts to a chat bot is just being a user of that software
    • simonw 3y ago
      My personal definition of "prompt engineering" is more about building new software on top of LLMs - the kind of stuff in https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook I see using ChatGPT directly as prompting, not prompt engineering.
  • jschveibinz 3y ago
    Software engineering is a type of engineering, but very few programmers actually do or even understand software engineering. Believe me, I know: I have hired and fired a lot of them.
  • uguuo_o 3y ago
    Software engineering is. The problem is most people think they are software engineers simply because a company makes such title for a job. If that is accepted, then why not call janitors as senior principal custodial enginner.