I hate it as much as the next person when people make unwarranted comparisons between AI and humans, but... there are multiple fields dedicated to studying effective human communication, with research into which writing techniques are most effective for pedagogy, technical communication, legal communication, and so on. Even if we achieved full smarter-than-human AGI, I don't expect prompt engineering to go away.

The real problem is that we insisted on giving a discipline that is far more art than science the title "engineering".

How could it be "a thing?" The models aren't well understood or published in most cases, the data used to create the model is unknown, and the system returns a single result instead of several results with tagged probabilities.

I don't know what "prompt engineers" think they're "engineering." There's nothing of the sort remotely happening here. This is just random uninformed actions being tested against a weak fitness function. The results are effectively meaningless in any broader context.

Humans are "intelligent," yet we often have to re-explain ourselves when asked semi-complex questions.