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Prompt engineering for developers

Prompt engineering for developers

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Prompt engineering for developers

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- If you've ever typed a question into ChatGPT and gotten a vague or unhelpful answer, or if Copilot generated code that didn't quite fit, you are not alone. The quality of the output often comes down to one key factor, the prompt you gave it. This is where prompt engineering comes in. Prompt engineering is the skill of crafting clear, specific and structured inputs to get the most useful and accurate responses from AI tools. And for developers, it's becoming just as important as knowing your editor shortcuts or writing good documentation. So how do we write better prompts? Let's start with the most common mistake being too vague. If you type something like, "How do I write a Python function?" You'll get a generic example. Maybe something like a Fibonacci calculator, but if you instead write, "Write a Python function that parses a CSV file "and returns a list of dictionaries, "where each dictionary maps column…

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