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I think prompt engineering is obsolete at this point, partly because it's very hard to do better than just directly stating what you want. Asking for too much tone modification, role-playing or output structuring from LLMs very clearly degrades the quality of the output.

"Prompt engineering" is a relic of the early hypothesis that how you talk to the LLM is gonna matter a lot.



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