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

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.