Prompt Engineering Is a Real Skill, Here's the Enterprise Playbook (Not Just 'Be Specific')

System prompt architecture, few-shot design patterns, chain-of-thought for structured outputs, evaluation frameworks and version control. The stuff that actually matters in production. I want to push back on something. There's a version of the "prompt engineering" conversation that treats it like a party trick, a collection of clever phrasings that coax better responses out of chatbots. "Be specific." "Think step by step." "You are an expert in..." This advice isn't wrong. It's just nowhere near