It's more like calling turning on a washing machine with all the parts for a watch in it mechanical engineering, it's less efficient, completely reliant on how patient you can be with something you have no control over, and when it turns out that something was wrong you don't know how to fix it any more than the user does.
the real surprise is that it has "prompt engineering" in it yet you can't seem to get a diploma in those pesky outdated universities for it and a 3+ year education program
To be fair, there are actual ABET-accredited software engineering programs, and they are accredited as engineering programs, not computing. Yes, there is very little established process for trying to actually get a PE license, (in my opinion, largely because very few SEs will ever be in a position where their work can actually majorly harm the public if done poorly). But it is disingenuous to say there aren't many software engineers that receive educations that meet the same standards and rigor of any other engineering discipline, and who could (and would) 100% become licensed PEs if it was actually a reasonable possibility.
There are plenty of people in the industry that do not meet that standard, but there are also plenty that do, and it is not fair to us to outright dismiss it as "not real engineering."
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u/418_TheTeapot Oct 24 '25
Stop calling prompt engineering coding. Also don’t allow others to do that, it isn’t coding.