My friend came up with “promptologist,” which goes well with all the AI butthole logos
this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2025
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I saw a comment calling them a prompstitute
I'm an artist, but I lived with three engineers in college and once had to go to a night class and take notes for one of them because I lost a bet. That one note-taking session gave me a huge appreciation for what engineers do.
Calling LLM querying bullshit "engineering" is monumentally stupid.
It took me 5 years of my life to obtain my M.Eng. and fucking Americans over there spray their diarrhea over their keyboards and think they're the same. Fuck that shit.
Yeah, I have an art degree and am a professional painter myself. I'm still getting gigs, but a lot of people are foregoing human creations for slop these days.
It's so self-important
Also it's not "vibe coding", but "slopramming".
Slop driven development
Slopelopment
Slop as a Service
I like the term "prompt fondler".
Honestly I add AI related shit to my cv, we've no choice when it comes to corporation hell. If you're a programmer it's nearly impossible to avoid AI, I add "prompts, MCP, fine-tuning and GUFF", but not "prompt engineer".
I'm currently mentally (and physically) handicapped. I really hope a cure is found so that I can answer the question "Did you use AI for coding?" with "Yes, when I was mentally handicapped."
DevSlops
There is no way people are actually calling themselves prompt engineers. I refuse
Someone at work unironically said we should hire one
me leaving that meeting
As a mechanical engineer, if i hear someone say they are a prompt engineer they’re getting slapped
I mean, I think we'd all appreciate it if you built a trebuchet instead
Prompt monkey
Someone please send this to Merriam-Webster
Slopvangelical LLM thumper.
I’m more like a tardy engineer.
It's not AI, it's neural network simulation, nothing fancy, just chain of ponderated nods
So from now ~~AI~~ → NS
ANN (artificial neural networks) is the more accepted terminology
Maybe accepted but still inaccurate, it's a simulation, not a proper artificial network, which, by definition, would be a proper "hardware".
And for the "artificial" term, I don't know, everything humanity does is artificial, so it's a bit superfluous.
Not sure these definitions are any better. Why is hardware proper by definition? And where is the software delineation? Would an fpga be hardware or software? How would this differ from our own neurons in that how they fire versus what they do is ill defined? I think trying to pin down where computational work is done biologically is a bit of a pointless exercise right now. Similarly trying to pin out definitions we use in computer science to match those ill understood biological constraints is also premature general ai using non biological computation may end up being vastly different from biology.
And traditionally we just call things a neural network artificial is implied give we are running on a digital computer.
Also the statement everything humanity does being artificial is needlessly broad. I don’t think you could argue reproduction of humans is artificial.