The State of Prompt Engineering
Highlights
- ▸Reasoning models automatically do what few-shot + chain-of-thought used to require manually — classical prompt engineering tricks are decaying, not compounding
- ▸The durable skills that remain: eval design, structured output schemas, tool-use orchestration, and context engineering for long-running agents
- ▸'Prompt engineering' as a job title is fading; 'context engineering' and 'eval engineering' are the skills that actually scale with capability
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