Quoting Mitchell Hashimoto

A lot of people who claim to be doing prompt engineering today are actually just blind prompting.1 "Blind Prompting" is a term I am using to describe the method of creating prompts with a crude trial-and-error approach paired with minimal or no testing and a very surface level knowedge of prompting. Blind prompting is not prompt engineering. [...] In this blog post, I will make the argument that prompt engineering is a real skill that can be developed based on …

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