Or that it will or should be a thing. If you are not talking about embedding, fine tuning, retraining, changing or making models yourself, prompt ‘engineering’

Or that it will or should be a thing. If you are not talking about embedding, fine tuning, retraining, changing or making models yourself, prompt ‘engineering’ is a trivial, boring, often time consuming exercise available to anyone who can, you know, use natural language. If you read enough ‘ways’ a specific model (version/training/fine tuning) can be ‘told’ what to do and then spend enough time subtly changing your writing and testing prompts for your goal, you can achieve whatever is good to excellent results for that model, mostly (models like chatgpt, even for the ‘experts in prompting’ quite often does things the prompt explicitly told it not to do). There is no engineering (scientific process in building something) involved and besides being articulate, there is also mostly no skill outside patience involved.