Comment by DiscourseFan

1) Software engineers don't often have deep physical knowledge of computer systems, and their work is far more involved with philosophy and to a certain extent mathematics than it is with empirical science.

2) I can tell you're not current with advances in AI. To be brief, just like with computer science more broadly, we have developed an entire terminology, reference framework and documentation for working with prompts. This is an entire field that you cannot learn in any school, and increasingly they won't hire anyone without experience.