100% prompt engineering was made up by grifters to sell consultations, classes, books, etc.
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calling it engineering is frankly an affront to anyone who's gone to an engineering college, or studied technical vocations where engineers are important.
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In any competitive, expensive field, It is easier to teach a professional to prompt, than a prompter the profession. Same as it is easier to teach a chemical engineer to work Excel, than it is to teach an excel wiz chemical engineering.
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LLMs with chain of thought reasoning are already making the whole thing irrelevant by promoting themselves. The industry is rapidly replacing the so called, "promt engineers."
Tldr: just read #3