It started innocently enough. I’d been tinkering with Anthropic’s Claude, just to see how it measured up to my usual go-to, ChatGPT. What kicked it off? A simple idea: “Claude, write me some Python that uses the OpenAI API to generate images.” I wasn’t asking for code that writes code (at least not directly). More like code that asks ChatGPT to get creative on my behalf.
Learn to talk to Artificial Intelligence like a pro – and get way better results.
Prompt engineering is the art of asking questions in a way that makes AI more useful. You’re not programming – you’re communicating. Clear, creative prompts = better answers. It’s about shaping your requests so that you guide the AI toward giving you output that’s accurate, useful, and styled how you need it. Think of it as crafting the perfect instruction to a very capable, very literal assistant.
This article was written by a team of two: one fully qualified human journalist, and one extremely efficient AI assistant. See if you can guess which bits were written by the one who never sleeps.
I was approached recently by a client wanting a 3D game environment in which players could talk to “bots” (artificially intelligent chat bots) by typing text and receiving replies. The chat bots were to live on a server while players would launch a 3D game client to login to the server.