How's your prompt engineering experience going?

I've been spending way too much time iterating on prompts lately. You write something, get a mediocre output, tweak a word, try again, restructure the whole thing, try again...

The biggest time sink for me isn't even the writing — it's figuring out the right structure. Where does the context go? Should I add constraints before or after examples? Am I giving the AI too much, or not enough?

I feel like we've all become prompt architects without any blueprints.

Curious to hear from you:

  - How much time do you spend structuring vs. actually writing your prompts?

  - Do you have a go-to framework or template you rely on?

  - Have you found any tools that actually help, or is it still mostly trial and error?