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Prompt Engineering

ai-engineering prompting

The practice of crafting a single message to get a better response from a language model.

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Definition

Prompt engineering focuses on the quality of the input message: word choice, structure, examples, instructions within the prompt itself. It works when the interaction is a single exchange. In an agentic context, prompt engineering is a subset of context engineering. The individual message matters less than the system that assembles everything the model sees across an entire session.

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