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Prompt engineer is derived from software engineer, which only is sometimes justified. It is basically diluting the word with increasingly less meaningful context. An engineer needs to be able to make guarantees and statements about what he engineers. You can do that with software if you are careful but the vast majority of software development is not engineering because engineering is too expensive and overkill most of the time.

But now that AI is in the mix and the results are purely stochastic, you basically threw out the entire meaning behind the word. The prompt engineer is unable to make guarantees and accurate statements about his prompts. He can't predict what the machine learning model is going to do, otherwise he wouldn't have asked.