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Is prompt engineering actually a skill or just familiarity from using models a lot?

I did two short prompting courses and honestly took almost nothing from them. The people I know who are genuinely good at this are not the ones who studied it, they are the ones using models for hours every day. Makes me wonder if there is any transferable method here or if it is just reps and tast…

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  1. 2026-10-28 11:49 · r/PromptEngineering
    Is prompt engineering actually a skill or just familiarity from using models a lot?

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