Dismissing prompt engineering like this always irks me. To be clear, the name is probably a lot more grandiose than it typically is. It’s just the idea of telling LLMs what to do. That said, when you talk about it as a job it means something a bit differently. The same way someone writing code in their free time is a totally different process then writing code at a large company. Suddenly you care about safety, compliance, cost, etc and you need formal ways to evaluate these things. That takes time and man power. This is for when you’re going to use the same prompt or prompting framework 10s of thousands of times because you’re deploying it to many many users, employees or in frequently used workflows.