Prompt Engineering

Structuring natural-language prompts to produce specified outputs from generative AI models — a discipline that became a job title.

Specifications & Metrics

The process of structuring natural language inputs (known as prompts) to produce specified outputs from a generative AI model.
Effective prompt engineering may include techniques such as few-shot prompting, chain-of-thought prompting, and role assignment.
During the 2020s AI boom it became regarded as a business capability, with employees hired as prompt engineers.