The “engineering” aspect will rear its head one fine day when company A, that has bet the house on ‘prompt engineering’ their service or product, resorts to pan

The “engineering” aspect will rear its head one fine day when company A, that has bet the house on ‘prompt engineering’ their service or product, resorts to panicked uttering of LLM chants, spells, and whatnot, to make a misbehaving model work again. But that it’s a bit further down the line. Today, like previous hype cycles, opportunistic types will cash out on the money train. And tomorrow you will do whiteboard interviews for them (just like the last cycles..) So the relevant question for the thoughtful geek isn’t “Is crafting prompts engineering?”. No. The Q is “should I sit out this hype cycle and then end up doing leet code monkey dance for the opportunistic types who made it big by riding the hype cycle, yet again?”