I hate the title creep of adding engineering to fucking every title [*] - and it’s not all that new, but “prompt engineering” is really far up there in the hubris of calling that “engineering”. There might not be anything overseeing the other title inflation I mention below - no real certification process or governance at all, basically - but at least in most cases, these people had to really work at what they do and learn quite a lot. I bet most people can call themselves a “prompt engineer” after sitting through a few videos on Youtube or Udemy, LOL.
[*] No one is a tester any more, oh, no, they work in “quality engineering”. Not even the title QA is grandiose enough. Same for programming - people aren’t just coders or programmers, oh no, they are software ENGINEERS. Same for working in operations or sysadmin, no one has that title, it’s site reliability ENGINEERING.
I assure you that REAL engineers that actually have the degrees and had to take exams like EIT and then work years under a real engineer to get their PE as a real engineer get a bit salty about all this title inflation. They did all this work and are suddenly neck-deep in “engineers” that are anything but. I get why they get annoyed, believe me. Someone teaches themselves something in the latest Javascript framework and a few weeks later is calling themselves a software engineer, LOL.
I hate the title creep of adding engineering to fucking every title [*] - and it’s not all that new, but “prompt engineering” is really far up there in the hubris of calling that “engineering”. There might not be anything overseeing the other title inflation I mention below - no real certification process or governance at all, basically - but at least in most cases, these people had to really work at what they do and learn quite a lot. I bet most people can call themselves a “prompt engineer” after sitting through a few videos on Youtube or Udemy, LOL.
[*] No one is a tester any more, oh, no, they work in “quality engineering”. Not even the title QA is grandiose enough. Same for programming - people aren’t just coders or programmers, oh no, they are software ENGINEERS. Same for working in operations or sysadmin, no one has that title, it’s site reliability ENGINEERING.
I assure you that REAL engineers that actually have the degrees and had to take exams like EIT and then work years under a real engineer to get their PE as a real engineer get a bit salty about all this title inflation. They did all this work and are suddenly neck-deep in “engineers” that are anything but. I get why they get annoyed, believe me. Someone teaches themselves something in the latest Javascript framework and a few weeks later is calling themselves a software engineer, LOL.