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: https://www.anthropic.com/
Anthropic prompt engineering docs: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/overview