Post #4097966
2026-07-18 07:35 UTC
Context engineering is a skill analogous to communicating a problem to fellow maintainers. This typically involves articulating the issue within an issue tracker, pull request, or comment using written text. Therefore, proficiency in “prompt engineering” is essentially a measure of one’s articulacy.
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@MrSmith@lemmy.world 2026-07-18 07:49
So it’s not a “useful tool for coding” then, if the quality of the output depends of one’s ability to articulate in a way that tickles the LLM “the right way”. Also, no matter how well you articulate, the output is still somewhat random. You can produce two different sections of code with (essentially) the same prompt, which also just means that theres an amount of luck and percieved randomness in a tool.