Prompt engineering
Declining · emerged July 2021 · high May 2023 · -12% on the month before · 30 mentions on Trending in 14 days
Writing and testing the instructions given to a model to get reliable answers. Named by Liu et al., Carnegie Mellon University: Pre-train, Prompt, and Predict: A Systematic Survey of Prompting Methods in NLP (Jul 28, 2021). Also called Prompting, Prompt design, Chain-of-thought prompting, Few-shot prompting.
Index 0 to 100, monthly
Signals
Hacker News stories, last 12 months190 stories, -25% on the 12 months before
arXiv papers, last 12 months783 papers, -24% on the 12 months before
Wikipedia views, October 202615,364, -30% on a year beforeAgainst its high-58% from the high of May 2023
Product releases naming it13 since Feb 19, 2026GitHub repositories22,207Conferences about it4| Signal | Reads as | |
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| Hacker News stories, last 12 months190 stories, -25% on the 12 months before | 190 stories, -25% on the 12 months before | Decline |
| arXiv papers, last 12 months783 papers, -24% on the 12 months before | 783 papers, -24% on the 12 months before | Decline |
| Wikipedia views, October 202615,364, -30% on a year before | 15,364, -30% on a year before | Decline |
| Against its high-58% from the high of May 2023 | -58% from the high of May 2023 | Decline |
| Product releases naming it13 since Feb 19, 2026 | 13 since Feb 19, 2026 | Adoption |
| GitHub repositories22,207 | 22,207 | Adoption |
| Conferences about it4 | 4 | Adoption |
Companies
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Releases
13 releases since Feb 19, 2026| Name | |
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| Oct 7, 20264 weeks ago | |
| Sep 17, 20267 weeks ago | |
| Sep 11, 20268 weeks ago | |
| Sep 1, 20262 months ago | |
| Aug 4, 20263 months ago | |
| Jul 24, 20263 months ago | |
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| Jun 20, 20264 months ago |
Papers
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| Sep 11, 20268 weeks ago | |
| Jan 28, 20224 years ago |
GitHub projects
22,207 repositoriesdair-ai/Prompt-Engineering-Guide🐙 Guides, papers, lessons, notebooks and resources for prompt engineering, context engineering, RAG, and AI Agents.anthropics/prompt-eng-interactive-tutorialAnthropic's Interactive Prompt Engineering TutorialZeroLu/awesome-nanobanana-pro🚀 An awesome list of curated Nano Banana pro prompts and examples. Your go-to resource for mastering prompt engineering and exploring the cbrexhq/prompt-engineeringTips and tricks for working with Large Language Models like OpenAI's GPT-4.jasontang-ai/Context-Engineering"Context engineering is the delicate art and science of filling the context window with just the right information for the next step." — Andai-boost/awesome-promptsCurated list of chatgpt prompts from the top-rated GPTs in the GPTs Store. Prompt Engineering, prompt attack & prompt protect. Advanced Prom
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| dair-ai/Prompt-Engineering-Guide🐙 Guides, papers, lessons, notebooks and resources for prompt engineering, context engineering, RAG, and AI Agents. · Dec 16, 2022 3 years ago | Dec 16, 20223 years ago | 78,599 |
| anthropics/prompt-eng-interactive-tutorialAnthropic's Interactive Prompt Engineering Tutorial · Apr 2, 2024 2 years ago | Apr 2, 20242 years ago | 38,288 |
| ZeroLu/awesome-nanobanana-pro🚀 An awesome list of curated Nano Banana pro prompts and examples. Your go-to resource for mastering prompt engineering and exploring the c · Nov 10, 2025 12 months ago | Nov 10, 202512 months ago | 10,322 |
| brexhq/prompt-engineeringTips and tricks for working with Large Language Models like OpenAI's GPT-4. · Apr 21, 2023 3 years ago | Apr 21, 20233 years ago | 9,581 |
| jasontang-ai/Context-Engineering"Context engineering is the delicate art and science of filling the context window with just the right information for the next step." — And · Jun 29, 2025 1 year ago | Jun 29, 20251 year ago | 9,253 |
| ai-boost/awesome-promptsCurated list of chatgpt prompts from the top-rated GPTs in the GPTs Store. Prompt Engineering, prompt attack & prompt protect. Advanced Prom · Jan 19, 2024 2 years ago | Jan 19, 20242 years ago | 8,933 |
Conferences
4 conferencesConf42 Prompt Engineering 2026OnlinePrompt Engineering 2025OnlineConf42 Prompt Engineering 2024OnlinePrompt Engineering Conference 2023Online
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| Conf42 Prompt Engineering 2026Online · Oct 29, 2026 11 days ago | Oct 29, 202611 days ago |
| Prompt Engineering 2025Online · Nov 6, 2025 1 year ago | Nov 6, 20251 year ago |
| Conf42 Prompt Engineering 2024Online · Nov 21, 2024 1 year ago | Nov 21, 20241 year ago |
| Prompt Engineering Conference 2023Online · Oct 12, 2023 3 years ago | Oct 12, 20233 years ago |
Related movements
Context engineeringDeciding what goes into a model's context window, and in what order: instructions, retrieved documents, tools and memory.LLMOps and evalsMeasuring, tracing and monitoring model-backed software: eval suites, LLM observability and prompt management.
| Movement | Stage |
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| Context engineeringDeciding what goes into a model's context window, and in what order: instructions, retrieved documents, tools and memory. | Plateau |
| LLMOps and evalsMeasuring, tracing and monitoring model-backed software: eval suites, LLM observability and prompt management. | Peak |
History
Tracking started: emerged July 2021, declining, 4 other names recorded
| Date | What changed |
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| Sep 24, 2026 | Tracking started: emerged July 2021, declining, 4 other names recorded |
Sources: Curve: Hacker News story titles, Wikipedia pageviews and arXiv papers by month, refreshed Nov 1, 2026. Related entities from the other Glyph Ibis sources' public APIs, matched by name. How stages work.