AI prompt engineering: A deep dive

Some of Anthropic’s prompt engineering experts—Amanda Askell (Alignment Finetuning), Alex Albert (Developer Relations), David Hershey (Applied AI), and Zack Witten (Prompt Engineering)—reflect on how prompt engineering has evolved, practical tips, and thoughts on how prompting might change as AI capabilities grow. Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 2:05 Defining prompt engineering 6:34 What makes a good prompt engineer 12:17 Refining prompts 24:27 Honesty, personas and metaphors in prompts 37:12 Model reasoning 45:18 Enterprise vs research vs general chat prompts 50:52 Tips to improve prompting skills 53:56 Jailbreaking 56:51 Evolution of prompt engineering 1:04:34 Future of prompt engineering Learn more about Anthropic: Anthropic prompt engineering docs: