I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the AI hype train has already left prompt engineering in the dust and driven on to the great central context engineering station.
tptacek · 1h ago
I don't think this is generally true, though maybe I'm just missing the semantic drift. "Context engineering" as I'm familiar with it is something you do when you're building your own agent loops, not simply strategies for how to get the best response from a chatbot.
InterviewFrog · 30m ago
"Context Engineering" is all the rage now. Picked up by AI Influencers.
Basically you give context to the AI models. Like if you want to build a social network you give the AI all the documentation around it so it can follow the best practices and guidelines etc.
tehemperorer · 50m ago
The chatbot forgets once the context tokens are used up. How do you engineer a solution, then, that ensures that the chatbot never forgets?
dSebastien · 1h ago
The main problem with books lagging behind "now" is almost solved
ianbicking · 1h ago
I'm confused, where's the content?
For instance I looked in Meta-Cognitive Techniques and it mentions "Articles in This Series" but the list doesn't have any links...?
Article 16: The Anatomy of a Good Prompt in 2025 (Coming Soon)
Article 17: Zero-Shot Prompting: The Foundation (Coming Soon)
Article 18: Few-Shot Prompting: Learning from Examples (Coming Soon)
Article 19: The Power of Instructions: Clarity and Precision (Coming Soon)
Article 20: Using Personas and Role-Playing Effectively (Coming Soon)
Article 21: The Art of Prompt Formatting and Delimiters (Coming Soon)
Article 22: System Messages vs. User Messages: Best Practices (Coming Soon)
Article 23: Prompt Chaining and Sequential Reasoning (Coming Soon)
Article 24: The Art of Iteration: Refining Your Prompts (Coming Soon)
Article 25: A/B Testing Your Prompts for Optimal Performance (Coming Soon)
Article 26: The Impact of Prompt Length on Response Quality (Coming Soon)
Article 27: How to Deal with "I don't know" Responses (Coming Soon)
Article 28: Common Prompting Mistakes to Avoid (Coming Soon)
Article 29: Techniques for Reducing Bias in LLM Outputs (Coming Soon)
Article 30: Understanding and Working with Model Limitations (Coming Soon)
tehemperorer · 51m ago
Prompt engineering was never a thing, sorry. Anyone that got paid as one certainly rode the hype train funded by people who didn't understand what they were paying for.
Basically you give context to the AI models. Like if you want to build a social network you give the AI all the documentation around it so it can follow the best practices and guidelines etc.
For instance I looked in Meta-Cognitive Techniques and it mentions "Articles in This Series" but the list doesn't have any links...?
https://promptz2h.com/chapter_03_advanced_prompting_techniqu...