Prompt Engineer

A prompt engineer is a professional who specialises in crafting and refining the instructions given to artificial intelligence ✕ Artificial intelligence is a computer system’s ability to perform tasks we associate with human intelligence, such as understanding language, recognizing images or making decisions. More in the glossary → models — especially large language models ✕ An LLM is an AI model trained on huge amounts of text to understand and generate language. It is the engine behind assistants like ChatGPT. More in the glossary → — to get the most useful, accurate and consistent responses. The work involves understanding how the model "thinks", trying different ways of phrasing a request, iterating on them and measuring what works best, often building reusable prompt ✕ A prompt is the instruction or question you give an AI to get a response. The clearer and more specific it is, the better the result tends to be. More in the glossary → templates and systems for specific tasks. It blends some logic and method with a good dose of clear communication and experimentation. It is a role that barely existed a few years ago and emerged with the rise of generative AI ✕ Generative AI creates new content —text, images, audio or code— from a prompt, instead of only analyzing existing data. More in the glossary → ; although models keep getting better at understanding instructions, knowing how to ask them well still makes a big difference to the results.