"Prompt Engineering Is Dead" Thread Converges on Few-Shot Lists

In a viral thread sparked by Chris Albon's quip that "prompt engineering is dead," Margot Mitchell and Mitchell Hashimoto proposed organizing examples as few-shot lists to be completed by the model, an approach Albon endorsed.

2026-10-24 ~ 2026-10-24 · 4 related posts

• The fix: restructure your examples as a list to complete — one-shot / few-shot prompting — mmitchell_ai · 2026-10-24
• Few-shot prompting trick: turn examples into a list the system completes — mmitchell_ai · 2026-10-24
• Prompt engineering is 'dead', long live prompt engineering: a cyclist-recipe prompt shows the craft persists — chrisalbon · 2026-10-24
• Chris Albon endorses the list-completion few-shot prompting approach — chrisalbon · 2026-10-24