Prompt Engineering Is Slowly Dying
Every time OpenAI upgrades its models, learning prompt engineering becomes less relevant.
OpenAI just released a new model and I have more reasons to believe that learning prompt engineering is becoming less relevant.
I’m not saying prompt engineering is already dead (later in this article I explain why) but things have changed since OpenAI released ChatGPT in 2022. Back then, learning prompting techniques was a must to get better responses. Today, ChatGPT doesn’t need as many instructions as it used to.
Here’s how OpenAI models are doing prompt engineering for you.
OpenAI’s o1 does Chain of Thought Prompting for you
OpenAI’s o1 stands out for its reasoning capabilities. It “thinks before it answers.”
How is this possible? How can an LLM think before responding to users?
Thanks to a prompting technique called chain of thought. We use this technique to induce the model to produce intermediate reasoning steps before giving the final answer to a problem. Here’s an example.
