Comment by quequon
Classic shilling behavior of the insufferably embarrassing: redefining words to the benefit of those who pay your bills to the confusion of everyone else.
The definition of engineering, according to people outside the pocket of the llm industry:
> The application of scientific and mathematical principles to practical ends such as the design, manufacture, and operation of efficient and economical structures, machines, processes, and systems.
How do these techniques apply scientific and mathematical principals?
I would argue to do either of those requires reproducibility, and yet somehow you are arguing the less reproducible something is that the more like "physical engineering" it becomes.
Being accused of shilling for saying that context engineering is closer to traditional engineering than software engineering is a new one for me.