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Comment by mold_aid

1 day ago

"Engineering" here seems rhetorically designed to convince people they're not just writing sentences. With respect "prompt writing" probably sounds bad to the same type of person who thinks there are "soft" skills.

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dpe82  1 day ago

This strikes me as a silly semantics argument.

One could similarly argue software engineering is also just writing sentences with funny characters sprinkled in. Personally, my most productive "software engineering" work is literally writing technical documents (full of sentences!) and talking to people. My mechanical engineering friends report similar as they become more senior.

  • mold_aid  21 hours ago

    >This strikes me as a silly semantics argument.

    Yeah, precisely what I'm saying. I don't think "they write prompt 'engineering' instead of 'writing' to maintain the fragile egos of people who use chatbots" [don't agree? See Mr. "but muh soft skills!" crying down thread] is worth saying outside of HN if I'm honest.

  • watwut  1 day ago

    I dont think so. It says the words were choosen to wngineer peoples emotions and make then feel right way.

    Tech people do not feel good about "writing propt essay" so it is called engineering to buy their emotional acceptance.

    Just like we call wrong output "hallucination" rather then "bullshit" or "lie" or "bug" or "wrong output". Hallucination is used to make us feel better and more acceptiong.