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Understand how applications send instructions to models and handle production API behavior.
Prompt Engineering
Prompt engineering improves the instruction, constraints, examples and requested output format sent to a model.
Think of it like
Think of Prompt Engineering like a restaurant or service desk: the request must reach the right endpoint in the right format and the response must be handled safely.
Real life
Web applications use concepts such as Prompt Engineering to communicate with external services.
SRE lens
An SRE prompt can specify “use only supplied evidence, return JSON, and do not restart anything”.
Remember thisPrompt engineering improves the instruction, constraints, examples and requested output format sent to a model.