> Since when the ability to write proper and meaningful sentences became engineering?
Since what's proper and meaningful depends on a lot of variables. Testing these, keeping track of them, logging and versioning take it from "vibe prompting" to "prompt engineering" IMO.
There are plenty of papers detailing this work. Some things work better than others (do this and this works better than don't do this - pink elephants thing). Structuring is important. Style is important. Order of information is important. Re-stating the problem is important.
Then there's quirks with family models. If you're running an API-served model you need internal checks to make sure the new version still behaves well on your prompts. These checks and tests are "prompt engineering".
I feel a lot of people take the knee-jerk reaction to the hype and miss critical aspects because they want to dunk on the hype.
Since what's proper and meaningful depends on a lot of variables. Testing these, keeping track of them, logging and versioning take it from "vibe prompting" to "prompt engineering" IMO.
There are plenty of papers detailing this work. Some things work better than others (do this and this works better than don't do this - pink elephants thing). Structuring is important. Style is important. Order of information is important. Re-stating the problem is important.
Then there's quirks with family models. If you're running an API-served model you need internal checks to make sure the new version still behaves well on your prompts. These checks and tests are "prompt engineering".
I feel a lot of people take the knee-jerk reaction to the hype and miss critical aspects because they want to dunk on the hype.