I'm in the drug discovery space, and for all the "engineering biology" talk that's around these days, I find a bunch of parallels to drug discovery in the AI, particularly LLM space.
The fact that these models get created and the poked and prodded with prompts reminds me a ton of chemical biology, aka the field of using chemicals to investigate biology.
It would appear that in the case of AI, the engineering has become art.
Ironically these technologies are the ones being heralded as the way to take biology and turn it into an engineering problem.
I always come back to may favorite XKCD "Here to Help" https://xkcd.com/1831