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Prompt Engineering

By Dan Kurtz Updated 1 min read

Prompt engineering is the practice of writing inputs to large language models that produce reliable, high-quality outputs. It combines instruction design, few-shot examples, output formatting, and constraint-setting.

The half-life of a specific prompt is short (models change every few months), but the underlying principles hold: be specific, provide context, show examples, define the output format explicitly.

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