Prompt engineering is really capital allocation, argues VC-adjacent thread
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-09-05
curiousvii offers a reframing of prompt engineering: when working with foundation models, it's really the art of capital allocation — deciding which opportunity deserves the biggest "seed round."
In their view, it resembles picking which company to write a check to after reviewing 10,000 pitches, rather than writing code. The core skill is allocating attention and resources across the model's capability space, not string-crafting.
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