I prefer to call it "prompt alchemy" for exactly the reasons you described. It can't be engineering if you can't understand what you are trying to engineer with

I prefer to call it "prompt alchemy" for exactly the reasons you described. It can't be engineering if you can't understand what you are trying to engineer with. Alchemists were sort of proto-scientists and engineers because they were trying to get use out of a physical world that they did not fully understand.