Engineers used to run powerful machines — now they write prompts and get mistaken for each other

burhop · x · 2026-10-24

Developer burhop riffs on words that no longer mean what they used to: engineers once created and drove highly powerful and dangerous machinery; now "engineers" are people who give prompts to LLMs and get mad about being confused with other people who give prompts to LLMs — a jab at how the prompt-engineering wave has diluted the title.

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