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how is "Engineering" "about chanting magic words"? The wires may be getting crossed on if it's an engineering discipline or just the use of the word engineer, meaning to build mindfully, I feel the latter is appropriate and the former more misguided but still it's not "Prompt Wizarding" ;)

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Well you're building nothing, your poking at a black box and hoping it spits out something close to what you want.

Precisely! You’re trying to learn the art of poking the box in the right way. As an engineer, I really despise the bastardisation of the term to refer to jobs or tasks that are inherently non-scientific.

I agree with you a 100%

It can be done scientifically, there are many techniques in the literature that put the engineering into Prompt Engineering.

Fair Enough. Just that discussion around the term feels like that sometimes especially with image generation.

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