It's a silly name for a real phenomenon. It's better categorized as a form of rhetoric; instead of persuading people to do what you want, you're persuading LLMs

It's a silly name for a real phenomenon. It's better categorized as a form of rhetoric; instead of persuading people to do what you want, you're persuading LLMs using particular patterns of language. But no one is going to call them "prompt rhetoricians". "Prompt writer" would be better, but "writing" is less of the spirit of the times than engineering.