What Prime Day Taught Me About Prompt Engineering I wanted to get better at prompt engineering. Not the trick-the-robot kind, the boring-but-useful kind: how to ask a model a question so you get an answer you can actually trust.The trouble with practicing is that most tutorials use made-up examples, and it’s hard to tell a good answer from a bad one when you don’t care about the topic. So I practiced on something I did care about: the deals sitting in my Amazon cart. I had a vacuum I’d been eyeing and a hair styler that was “43% off,” and I genuinely wanted to know if those were good prices or just good marketing. The stakes were real, actual money on an actual decision, and that’s what made it a good drill. A vague prompt gives you a confident answer, and when you actually care, you can feel that the answer is hollow.What I learned, with the real deals and the actual before-and-after prompts:The trap hiding in every dealStart with the hair styler. The listing said:> Shark FlexStyle. L...
What Prime Day Taught Me About Prompt Engineering I wanted to get better at prompt engineering. Not the trick-the-robot ...
