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prompt engineering limits

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Explicitly argues that scaling complexity through bigger prompts is a dead-end solution. This extends understanding of when prompt engineering hits its ceiling and architectural decisions become neces

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AI Superstream: Agent Orchestration—Managing multi-agent workflows for reliable and resilient AI systems [Video]

Article directly states multi-agent systems require 'more than just better prompts'—signals shift away from prompt-centric thinking toward orchestration-centric thinking.

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AI Superstream: Agent Orchestration—Managing multi-agent workflows for reliable and resilient AI systems [Video] contradicts

Article directly states multi-agent systems require 'more than just better prompts'—signals shift away from prompt-centric thinking toward orchestration-centric thinking.

@sairahul1: A senior Google engineer dropped a 424-page doc on agentic design patterns. extends

Explicitly argues that scaling complexity through bigger prompts is a dead-end solution. This extends understanding of when prompt engineering hits its ceiling and architectural decisions become neces

@dbreunig: Prompts are great for one-off requests and human-in-the-loop interfaces, but ... example_of

Breunig is describing the outer boundary of prompt effectiveness—where prompts fail as a mechanism for system definition

@emollick: Things that make the jagged intelligence of AI harder to deal with than the j... example_of

Mollick's observation that weaknesses are 'not always intuitive or identifiable' directly implies prompt engineering has fundamental limits—you can't engineer your way around a failure you don't under

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