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prompt engineering

The practice of optimizing the wording of a single message sent to a model, a narrower discipline than shaping everything else the model also sees.

Related term

context engineeringThe discipline of managing the full input a model sees, including system prompt, project files, tool output, and conversation history, rather than only the wording of one message.view term

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cited by: 2 posts
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first used: apr 2026

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