{"id":135427,"date":"2026-05-30T14:33:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T14:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=135427"},"modified":"2026-05-30T14:33:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T14:33:28","slug":"because-prompt-engineering-is-a-misnomer-it-is-prompt-manipulation-prompt-manipulation-is-engineering-as-much-as-social-engineering-is-engineeringsecond-llm-based-tools-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=135427","title":{"rendered":"Because &#8220;prompt engineering&#8221; is a misnomer &#8211; it is &#8220;prompt manipulation&#8221; (prompt manipulation is &#8220;engineering&#8221; as much as &#8220;social engineering&#8221; is &#8220;engineering&#8221;)\n\nSecond, #LLM-based tools are NOT deterministic; LLM-based tools are probabilistic \n\n#promptmanipulation https:\/\/t.co\/kLdRTGIHz4"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Because &#8220;prompt engineering&#8221; is a misnomer &#8211; it is &#8220;prompt manipulation&#8221; (prompt manipulation is &#8220;engineering&#8221; as much as &#8220;social engineering&#8221; is &#8220;engineering&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Second, #LLM-based tools are NOT deterministic; LLM-based tools are probabilistic <\/p>\n<p>#promptmanipulation https:\/\/t.co\/kLdRTGIHz4<\/p>\n<p>  &mdash; M\u0250\u0279\u0279\u01ddu W\u028e\u01dd\u0279s (@warrenmyers)<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers\/status\/2060730692133060625\">May 30, 2026<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers<\/p>\n<p>May 30, 2026 at 10:30AM<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because &#8220;prompt engineering&#8221; is a misnomer &#8211; it is &#8220;prompt manipulation&#8221; (prompt manipulation is &#8220;engineering&#8221; as much as &#8220;social engineering&#8221; is &#8220;engineering&#8221;) Second, #LLM-based tools are NOT deterministic; LLM-based tools are probabilistic #promptmanipulation https:\/\/t.co\/kLdRTGIHz4 &mdash; M\u0250\u0279\u0279\u01ddu W\u028e\u01dd\u0279s (@warrenmyers) May 30, 2026 from Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers May 30, 2026 at 10:30AM via IFTTT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-135427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135428,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135427\/revisions\/135428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135427"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=135427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}