What Is Prompt Engineering?
Prompt engineering is the practice of designing, testing, and refining the instructions given to a large language model (LLM) to produce accurate, relevant, and consistent output. It pairs natural language skills with an understanding of how models like GPT, Claude, and Gemini interpret context, so the same underlying model performs noticeably better once it's live.
In practice, that means writing clear instructions, supplying the right context and examples, structuring multi-step prompts, and testing outputs against edge cases before anything reaches an end user. Good prompt engineering makes an AI development project actually behave as intended in production.