By skyforbes Hey guys, I am wondering why the term "prompt engineering" is often laughed about or taken as a joke and not seriously when someone says he is a "prompt engineer" at work or in his free time?
I mean, from my point of view prompt engineering ist a real thing. It's not easy to get an LLM to do what you want exactly and there are definitely people who are more advanced in the topic then most people and especially compared to the random average user of ChatGPT.
I mean, most people don't even know that a thing such as a system prompt exists, or that a role definition can improve the output quite a lot if used correctly.
Even some more advanced users don't know the difference between single-shot and multi-shot prompting.
These are all terms that you learn over time if you really want to improve yourself working with AI and I think it's not a thing that's just simple and dull.
So why is the term so often not taken seriously?