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Comment by nonethewiser

>Whether they call it now "prompt" or "context" engineering because it's the same tinkering to find something that "sticks" in non-deterministic space.

I dont quite follow. Prompts and contexts are different things. Sure, you can get thing into contexts with prompts but that doesn't mean they are entirely the same.

You could have a long running conversation with a lot in the context. A given prompt may work poorly, whereas it would have worked quite well earlier. I don't think this difference is purely semantic.

For whatever it's worth I've never liked the term "prompt engineering." It is perhaps the quintessential example of overusing the word engineering.

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