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TIL that developing something like the Google Search ranking function is not engineering.

psychologists and sociologists use statistics to evaluate their results, does that make them engineers too?

Engineers of the human soul: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineers_of_the_human_soul

so you're taking classification advice from joseph stalin? Maybe reconsider whether thats applicable to the situation or not.

That's beautiful, I'd never heard of it before. Thank you.

No, but it may mean that prompt engineering is a human science on the spectrum from phenomenology to scientism. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

no it means prompt engineering is not engineering, thats just a euphemism used by those people to pretend to be doing something prestigious. They're doing engineering same way subway's sandwich assemblers do sandwich engineering - which is to say they aren't.

Right, like I said... on the spectrum... neither art nor beyond the apex of science as cult.

FWIW, Bon Appetit may not be clear on sandwich engineering, but it is clear on sandwich architecture:

https://www.bonappetit.com/columns/the-foodist/article/sandw...

I can certainly remember chefs in my city who met that standard.

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