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Prompt Engineering is not real
how to not waste your time on useless* advice
Let me tell you why
With any new development, we see two behaviours: consumption and capitalization. The capitalisation is on two things:
1. Real value
2. value that’s marketed as real.
With AI, we’re seeing this pattern as well. Since generative chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini came out, people have become obsessed with using them effectively. They’ve been instrumentalised, with constant pressure to either use them well or not at all.
Among this instrumentalism comes Prompt Engineering
Prompt engineering is the practice of designing and refining input queries to get the most accurate and useful responses from AI models. It involves crafting specific instructions or questions to guide the AI in generating the desired output.
Thousands of articles, courses, videos are out there to help us use these chatbot’s better. I think Prompt Engineering is the second type of value— marketed as essential but often misleading. Wait, hear me out.
I don’t mind the gurus selling us prompt’s; they’re selling shovels in a gold rush, and some are even selling the raw…
