prompt engineering
Wording a request so the model reliably does the right thing — being specific, showing an example, saying what not to do. Less fashionable than it was, still the cheapest fix available.
Where it comes up
Engineering Teams in the Agentic Era
“workflows of engineering are changing as well. And then we talked about this a little bit too but um tickets are kind of becoming like agent briefs. And so I think there was a lot uh of discussion when AI like first came out about prompt en…”
Cursor for Security Teams
“and what good looks like and what you do and don't want to see. And models need the same thing. If you're very vague, they're not going to get it. they might go off in the wrong direction. You're going to get frustrated. Um, but you know, f…”
Cursor x Slack
“learned as we were building this system prompt, um given that, you know, this is trial and error, uh that's kind of why it's it's called prompt engineering, is one thing we found is that the agent was replying to the channel, but we wanted…”