Glossary
Prompt Engineering
Short answer
The practice of writing and refining prompts to reliably obtain a desired result.
Prompt engineering is not finding one magic sentence but building a repeatable method: recording what works, reusing the patterns that work, and changing one variable at a time.
The most effective practice is splitting the prompt: a variable subject section and a fixed style section. That preserves consistency across a series.
The second is isolating which part of the prompt did the work when you evaluate a result. Change three things at once and you cannot tell which made the difference.
See also
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