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		jwr 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Prompt engineering playbook for programmers I find the name "prompt engineering" so annoying. There is no engineering in throwing something at the wall and seeing if it sticks. There are no laws or rules that one can learn. It's not science, and it is certainly not engineering.

dimitri-vs 4 months ago [–]

It's really just technical writing. Majority of tricks from the GTP-4 era are obsolete with reasoning models.

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