Prompt engineering isn't dead, says dev: it just shifted from wording tricks to defining tasks clearly
Luvena21 · reddit · 2026-09-28
A Reddit debate on whether prompt engineering is dead: one camp says smarter models make it obsolete, the other argues prompting quality still separates working agents from quietly failing ones.
The poster, who built a simple agent from scratch, found his prompts today are neither shorter nor easier — just different: less about wording tricks, more about clearly defining the task and telling the model what counts as a good result.
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