One definition of "engineer" is "to plan or do something in a skillful way:". Example: "The administration engineered a compromise." I'd say even in this examp

One definition of "engineer" is "to plan or do something in a skillful way:". Example: "The administration engineered a compromise." I'd say even in this example, there's more a sense of searching through a range of different options to achieve specific properties. This is the sense of "prompt engineering": you use skills to create prompts -- in part by searching through various alternatives -- that have specific properties. [1] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/engineer https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/engineer