> “So why isn’t it engineering? Well, is asking a question “engineering”? Excuse me for being pedantic but from what I’ve learned it’s part of the field of “philosophy”. There is no engineering involved. And even if there is “skill” required to formulate a well-structured question for the LLM, that is not an engineering pursuit.”
Not a convincing argument when we’re talking about software.
Is designing a data structure engineering or philosophy? Go back 200 years and ask scholars whether determining the abstract properties of a non-physical object is engineering. They’d say “no” and point you towards Kant. Yet today that kind of thought process underlies engineered things that we call names like “infrastructure” and “products” even though they don’t fit the definition those words had as recently as 60 years ago.