I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the AI hype train has already left prompt engineering in the dust and driven on to the great central context engineering station.
What you're describing is poking a thing with a stick to see if it moves.
It’s really convenient that now folks here are in the in-group so that we can turn around and guard the entry gate.
More to the point: If the system you’re interacting with isn’t deterministic, you don’t understand how it really works internally, and you’re prodding it to see what happens if you do this instead of that—then that just isn’t engineering! or at least not in the sense that the word has been used, not without it becoming a term void of any specific meaning.
Biological engineering would like a word.
But to press your overall point: why? What bad happens if we discard an attempt at a “lower” bound and let somebody be a spreadsheet engineer or a breakfast engineer or a roulette engineer?
I think engineers will survive just fine.
Basically you give context to the AI models. Like if you want to build a social network you give the AI all the documentation around it so it can follow the best practices and guidelines etc.