Prompting LLMs is not engineering published in:
With the proliferation of AI models and tools, there's a new industry-wide fascination with snake oil remedies called "prompt engineering".
As of July 2025 the term is now "context engineering" or "context prompting" or "context manipulation".
To put it succinctly, prompt engineering is nothing but an attempt to reverse-engineer a non-deterministic black box for which any of the parameters below are unknown:
training set
weights
constraints on the model
layers between you and the model that transform both your input and the model's output that can change at any time
availability of compute for your specific query
and definitely some more details I haven't thought of
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