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Prompt Alchemy

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Andrei's preferred term for 'prompt engineering'. He argues it is not an engineering discipline — it is alchemy, because outputs are random and changing a couple of words yields completely different results. Cites research showing that telling a model to 'take a deep breath and think of this problem carefully' improves results, with no one able to explain why beyond 'it's in the training data'.

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Andrei renames 'prompt engineering' to 'prompt alchemy' and argues it's not engineering.

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