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Cognitive Revolution · April 5, 2025 · 65m

The Art and Science of Prompt Engineering

Labenz shares hard-won lessons from years of intensive prompt engineering. The skill is less about clever tricks and more about understanding how to structure the model's environment.

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A prompt is literally the environment in which an AI model operates. Better prompts do not trick the model — they provide better environments for the model to work within.
Labenz advocates sharing prompts publicly even when imperfect, because community iteration improves them faster than private perfectionism.
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