prompt-fu, like Google-fu? I have a friend who’s gotten very good at prompt-fu.

I think that's a bit of a mouthful for casual use. I like "prompting" as an equivalent to "googling", although it is a bit more dependent on context.

It's just social engineering, codified. Even in that context it feels cheap.

Lawyers do the same thing as "prompt engineers"-- command mastery of English to achieve a desired outcome. We don't call them Litigation Engineers.

We call them Wordsmiths.

I’ll take it. I spend about half my time developing/promptsmithing and the other half lawyering. “Wordsmith” sure beats some of the other lawyer epithets out there

So prompt engineers could be promptsmiths?

I think the people who know what they're doing are probably going to come up with some quantitative ways to evaluate the performance of prompts. That's where the real engineering will come from. You could even have chatGPT generate prompts for you and evaluate the best performing ones.

Any moron can make up a prompt and say "yeah looks good enough".

LLM whisperers?

It's really a form of rhetoric tailored for LLMs.

> Rhetoric aims to study the techniques writers or speakers utilize to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations