Writing a prompt isn't engineering It's typing.
You type what you want The AI figures out the rest That's not a skill that's having a conversation with a very fast very confident intern who never admits uncertainty.
And yet We've started calling ourselves prompt engineers We've started listing it on LinkedIn We've started acting like knowing how to ask is the same as knowing how to build It's not.
The real skill - the one that actually matters the one that was always there never changed It's knowing what to ask for It's knowing whether the answer is right It's knowing what the AI assumed what it missed and what it quietly broke without flagging.
Prompting isn't the skill Judgment is.
