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> Since these are non-deterministic machines, I fail to see any reliable heuristic that is fundamentally indistinguishable than "trying and seeing" with prompts
by colordrops 1y ago
> Since these are non-deterministic machines, I fail to see any reliable heuristic that is fundamentally indistinguishable than "trying and seeing" with prompts
There are many sciences involving non-determinism that still have laws and patterns, e.g. biology and maybe psychology. It's not all or nothing.
Also, LLMs are deterministic, just not predictable. The non-determinism is injected by providers.
Anyway is there an essential difference between prompt engineering and context engineering? They seem like two names for the same thing.
- simonw 1y agoThey arguably are two names for the same thing. The difference is that "prompt engineering" as a term has failed, because to a lot of people the inferred definition is "a laughably pretentious term for typing text into a chatbot" - it's become indistinguishable from end-user prompting. My hope is that "context engineering" better captures the subtle art of building applications on top of LLMs through carefully engineering their context.