Posted on Fri 02 October 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with GenAI, LLM, context-engineering, prompt-engineering, opinion
A few months ago I wrote about whether prompt engineering was a dying skill, and landed on "it's not dying, it's getting absorbed into something bigger." Since then, I keep running into a new term that feels like exactly that "something bigger" showing up with a …
Posted on Wed 23 September 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with GenAI, LLM, prompt-engineering, production, testing
You spend hours refining a prompt. You test it with ten, twenty, fifty example inputs. It works beautifully every time. You ship it. A week later, real users start hitting it with inputs you never imagined, and the same prompt that felt bulletproof starts producing broken …
Posted on Sat 05 September 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with GenAI, LLM, prompt-engineering, model-scaling, opinion
Every few months there's a new "frontier model" release with bigger benchmarks, more parameters, longer context windows. And every few months, right alongside it, someone shows a clever prompting technique that gets a much smaller, cheaper model to match or beat a bigger one on the …
Posted on Sat 29 August 2026 in GenAI • Tagged with GenAI, LLM, prompt-engineering, opinion, career
A year ago, "prompt engineer" was being talked about as a serious job title — some companies even hired for it with six-figure salaries attached. Fast forward to now, and I keep seeing the opposite take everywhere: that prompt engineering is basically over, that models got smart …