Prompt EngineeringRick Battle et al. (VMware)
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Eccentric Automatic Prompts published
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Eccentric Automatic Prompts published — an automatic prompt optimizer consistently beats hand-written positive-thinking system messages
Why it matters
Demonstrated the limits of people polishing prompts by hand. Empirical grounds for the narrative that prompt engineering is in decline
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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10949Added in Week 35, 2026 · See that week
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