Not too long ago, I found myself in a spirited exchange on social media with a chap – genuinely a good fellow – who had some reservations about the concepts of prompt engineering and prompting.
His stance revolved around two main points.
- Firstly, he believed that prompting and prompt engineering were one and the same, even though we've delved deep into their distinctions in numerous articles.
- But the crux of his argument was his likening of prompting to mere "guessing" or "or gambling" drawing a parallel to the simple act of rolling a dice.
This is an issue that I often
