Prompt engineering has changed a lot recently. I remember around this time last year, strict prompt engineering rules were a must. From You are a professional persona setting, to zero-shot, few-shot CoT techniques, these were necessary for quality outputs

Nowadays, it feels as if AI models do the engineering all by themselves without user input. They understand us well even if we re just casually typing (some call it lazy prompting , and I even saw a product related to this on PH)