On: Ask HN: Is prompt engineering just snake oil?

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Political engineering is pretty common in societies where deep state or establishment has a firm control and wants to engineer results their way.

Most Western democracies are not that.

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would you mind answering this question, please?

it's been ignored twice despite being kind of the key point:

> is social engineering snake oil, too?

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Already answered above:

>For social or political engineering, you can gain definite knowledge (spying, observing, researching, information extraction) and then devise something.

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unfortunately not: that doesn't answer whether social engineering, too, is snake oil, which is a yes or no question

straight answers to straight questions tend to be better