Prompt Engineering: Or, The Art of Yelling at a Black Box Until It Behaves

Another production incident bites the dust, the logs finally quiet down, and the only thing left is the bitter taste of stale coffee and the lingering question: what the hell just happened? We've shipped enough code that breaks in fascinating, undocumented ways to know that the next frontier of 'things that randomly fail' would naturally involve large language models. And with that, comes the glorious, hyped-up, often misunderstood discipline of