Is prompt engineering dead? What replaced it
NEO Campus Editorial25 February 20266 min read
Hand-tuned megaprompts are giving way to structured, testable systems. The skills that matter now look more like software engineering than copywriting.
From prompts to programs
Frameworks like DSPy treat prompts as compiled artifacts. The human writes the spec; the system optimises the wording.
Structured output by default
JSON-mode, function calling, and grammars eliminate a whole class of parsing bugs.
Evaluation as a first-class concern
You cannot improve what you do not measure. Eval harnesses are the new test suites.
