Writing
Why I Wrote a Book on Prompt Engineering (And Why 'Prompting' Is the Wrong Word)
I have spent the last two years watching engineers argue with autocomplete. They type a question into an LLM, get a wrong answer, and conclude the model “doesn’t understand” the problem. Then they rephrase the same question three more times, hoping the fourth attempt triggers some hidden reasoning circuit. It never does, because there is no reasoning circuit to trigger. There is a statistical engine predicting the next token, and the gap between what people think it does and what it actually does is where every bad prompt comes from.