Prompt engineering is a harmful absurdity. The industry has spent so long convincing us that working with neural networks requires special "incantations" that we started mistaking this crutch for a genuine requirement. We got used to treating AI as a dutiful but dim junior developer who needs every single thing spelled out, or they will inevitably wander off course. From this assumption, those multi-story monsters are born: "Imagine you are a brilliant marketer with twenty years of experience, write a text in three paragraphs, use these words, do not use those, breathe every other second."
The truth is that on modern, top-tier LLMs, writing a giant, rigidly algorithmic prompt risks trapping the model inside the walls of your own limited intellect.
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