Prompt Engineering is obsolete, now what?
Recently, Andrej Karpathy mentioned the term “Context Engineering” and said he is giving preference to it over prompt engineering. It’s the moment then I realized that Prompt Engineering also exists because for the last 6–8 months, no one is talking about improving a prompt and stuff.
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I'm guessing "prompt engineering" was when people were very highly focused on just wording the prompt correctly, including the right keywords and using all kinds of text tricks to get better results from the AI answers.
And "context engineering" is less about wording and more about warming up the model before asking the main question e.g. uploading relevant files, setting up baseline facts, goals, etc. and then asking?
Edit: Remember "jailbreak prompts" ? lol
Yeah, that's pretty much it. Check out this article for more details.
I can't keep up with all this. I wonder what the actual engineers think of all this wordplay. An engineer is an engineer, I doubt they consider themselves "prompt" engineers or "context" engineers.
This concept is weird to me too. It makes it sound like there's a college major for prompt engineering.