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AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn't | Sander Schulhoff

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AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn't | Sander Schulhoff

Directly answers this question, the top 5 techniques that work plus why role prompting and threatening the AI stopped working, from the researcher behind the largest prompting study.

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The question it answers

  1. What are the 5 prompting techniques worth learning (and the ones that are outdated)?

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  1. A practitioner's deep-dive with real examples from AI companies like Bolt, separating research-backed techniques from folklore. news.aakashg.com Article Prompt Engineering in 2025: The Latest Best Practices Aakash Gupta (Product Growth)
  2. The model maker's own playbook, clear, ordered from most to least effective, and kept current as models change. platform.claude.com Guide Prompt engineering overview (official Claude docs) Anthropic
  3. Rare empirical test of popular techniques against a current model, shows which tips are measurable wins and which are myths. dreamhost.com Article We Tested 25 Popular Claude Prompt Techniques: These 5 Actually Work Brian Andrus (DreamHost)
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