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> Is that any more "engineering" than "prompt engineering"?

Yes?



According to what arguments? What makes writing letters to create/modify a blockchain/blockchain application different than writing letters for a LLM to generate the correct text?


Predictable outputs for a given input. Do you think a civil engineer just hopes for a sound structure? Or do they know the structure is sound before construction begins?


Civil engineers actually have liability, they can go to prison. Software "engineers", not so much.




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