Andrew Ng: Prompt engineering will be dead in 6 months, graphs are replacing it
thoefler · x · 2026-08-17
Google Brain founder Andrew Ng predicted that prompt engineering will be dead in six months, replaced by Graph of Thoughts. During a 2-hour lecture at Stanford, he demonstrated how to build agents that work and improve entirely on their own. The first 10 minutes cover core concepts often missed in expensive courses.
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