Prompt engineering shapes how you ask — clear instructions, examples, structure, and constraints — to steer a model toward correct, consistent results. It is the cheapest tuning lever and often the first thing to try before fine-tuning.
Definition
Crafting the instructions and examples given to a model to get better, more reliable output, without changing the model itself.
Prompt engineering shapes how you ask — clear instructions, examples, structure, and constraints — to steer a model toward correct, consistent results. It is the cheapest tuning lever and often the first thing to try before fine-tuning.
Also known as
prompting