I think a lot of prompt engineering is magic thinking. It apparently worked once so you keep iterating on it without knowing if it has a positive or negative ef

I think a lot of prompt engineering is magic thinking. It apparently worked once so you keep iterating on it without knowing if it has a positive or negative effect on any continued use. Some folks at work have got really into it and have some elaborate prompts to use before asking code related questions. I cannot see any different in their output vs mine when I just straight ask gpt4 questions.