Prompt engineering is 'dead', long live prompt engineering: a cyclist-recipe prompt shows the craft persists
chrisalbon · x · 2026-10-24
Chris Albon quotes Margot Mitchell's cyclist-dinner prompt (list cyclist ingredients first, then derive recipes) to quip that the 'prompt engineer' job title is dead while prompt engineering lives on. Mitchell notes you can escape the pattern by structuring examples as a list the system completes — i.e. one-shot/few-shot prompting.
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