Loop Engineering: Why Prompt Engineering Is Becoming Obsolete
People spent countless hours optimizing prompts: Add more context. Entire courses, books, and careers emerged around writing the perfect prompt. The future isn't about writing better prompts.
- ▪People spent countless hours optimizing prompts: Add more context.
- ▪Entire courses, books, and careers emerged around writing the perfect prompt.
- ▪The future isn't about writing better prompts.
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| Publication time | Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:45:56 +0000 |
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