But writing “source code” is definitively not “software engineering”. It has a name: programming. A software engineer is the person that creates a system from s

But writing “source code” is definitively not “software engineering”. It has a name: programming. A software engineer is the person that creates a system from software mostly using software. AI-assistant engineering makes sense. Prompt crafting is fair, informative, and accurate. And we (should) all know by now that craftsman/artisan != engineer. Ask your favorite LLM to categorize the following statements as one of { reasonable, wishful } notions: - writing prompts for LLMs is engineering. The science of engineering effective LLM prompts. - writing prompts for LLMs is an art*. The art of crafting effective LLM prompts. * almost all ‘art’ rests on fairly coherent communal ‘logic’ or ‘schools’. What distinguishes art from science is that this logic does not need have any basis in appealing to reason. Aesthetics in sciences, in contrast, is primarily used to select one of many contending scientific theorems in ambiguous contexts (as in “the beauty of the mathematics of the unverifiable <X> theory to me implies its truth”.)