It's basically a way in which already delusional people are further deluding themselves that writing a part of a sentence while interacting with a black box is engineering.
Engineering is full of highly specialized disciplines. I met radio antenna engineers who only ever worked on one single piece of test equipment their entire working career and who used it to watch a signal bounce while they moved around pieces of copper tape on a PCB. That's literally all they did, and they didn't know what a spectrum analyzer or any other related tool was.
You'll find these specialized positions working with AI as well soon.
We can deride it from not being "traditional" engineering, but engineering as defined as "doing the best you can with tools you have", certainly allows for a prompt engineer to be defined..
>engineering as defined as "doing the best you can with tools you have"
This is not a definition of engineering anyone sane holds. It's so broad it can be used to define a floor cleaner as an engineer (or, if you want higher tech involved, a floor cleaner with a roomba).
