<story><title>Maximizing the Potential of LLMs: A Guide to Prompt Engineering</title><url>https://www.ruxu.dev/articles/ai/maximizing-the-potential-of-llms/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Uptrenda</author><text>&amp;quot;Prompt engineering&amp;quot; is the most pretentious name. Lad, your typing words into a little box. You ain&amp;#x27;t &amp;quot;engineering&amp;quot; shit, lmao. The next time I read a book maybe I&amp;#x27;ll tell people that I&amp;#x27;m a phonetic diffusionary or how about making a burger at Mcdonalds: gastronomical entrainer. I hate bullshitters.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>olliecornelia</author><text>I imagine this is how professional engineers feel about HN folk calling themselves software engineers.</text></comment>
<story><title>Maximizing the Potential of LLMs: A Guide to Prompt Engineering</title><url>https://www.ruxu.dev/articles/ai/maximizing-the-potential-of-llms/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Uptrenda</author><text>&amp;quot;Prompt engineering&amp;quot; is the most pretentious name. Lad, your typing words into a little box. You ain&amp;#x27;t &amp;quot;engineering&amp;quot; shit, lmao. The next time I read a book maybe I&amp;#x27;ll tell people that I&amp;#x27;m a phonetic diffusionary or how about making a burger at Mcdonalds: gastronomical entrainer. I hate bullshitters.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spacebanana7</author><text>&amp;gt; Lad, your typing words into a little box.&lt;p&gt;It’s more than just using ChatGPT.&lt;p&gt;High value prompts are used in API calls where performance, security and variable substitution all come into play. These queries can reach thousands of words&amp;#x2F;tokens.&lt;p&gt;A developer who spends all day writing prompts is at least as respectable as one who spends theirs writing SQL.</text></comment>