prompt engineering
6 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Apr 7, 2024 by Claire Vo · across every show →
Everything said about prompt engineering, oldest first
Apr 7, 2024 positive
Apr 10, 2025 bearish
Weil: Prompt engineering will become obsolete as AI matures
“I want to kill the idea that you have to be a good prompt engineer. I think if we do our jobs, that stops being true. You know, it's just one of those, like, sharp edges of models that experts can learn, but then you just, over time, you shouldn't need to know…”
Jun 19, 2025 bullish
Jun 19, 2025 neutral
Schulhoff: Prompt Engineering Originated from Production Pipelines, Not Chat
“Notably, that is not where the classical concept of prompt engineering came from. It actually came a bit earlier from a more, I guess, AI engineer perspective, where you're like, I have this product I'm building. I have this one prompt or a couple different pr…”
Jun 19, 2025 neutral
Schulhoff: Prompting benchmarks focus on math because accuracy is easily automated
“A lot of these techniques are judged based off of data sets of like math or reasoning questions. Simply because you're going to evaluate the accuracy programmatically, as opposed to something like generating interview questions, which is no less valuable, but …”
Sep 7, 2025 positive
Ezinne Udezue: AI PMs must master evaluations, not just prompt engineering
“There's this skill of being able to write evals. I know everybody can write prompts, prompt engineering. You can try and focus the LLM so that it can offer better insights and offer better results. But even as your LLM actually Provide, produces results. You n…”