On: Prompt engineering playbook for programmers

[vunderba]

I came across a pretty amusing analogy back when prompt "engineering" was all the rage a few years ago.

> Calling someone a prompt engineer is like calling the guy who works at Subway an artist because his shirt says ‘Sandwich Artist.’

All jokes aside I wouldn't get to hung up on the title, the term engineer has long since been diluted to the point of meaninglessness.

https://jobs.mysubwaycareer.eu/careers/sandwich-artist.htm

[theanonymousone → vunderba]

Why would I have a problem calling that guy a sandwich engineer?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_engineer

[guappa → theanonymousone]

It's cute that you think that being a sound engineer is something you can pick up in a few minutes, while it requires knowledge of acoustics, electronics, music theory and human perception.

[theanonymousone → guappa]

It's your understanding of what I wrote, not what I meant and far from it.

[wiseowise → theanonymousone]

Because you’ll hurt ops huge ego. God forbid you put the godly title of ENGINEER near something so trivial as sandwich.