Prompt engineering

Declining · emerged July 2021 · high May 2023 · -9% on the month before · 9 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

Signal	Value	Reads as
Hacker News stories, last 12 months196 stories, -24% on the 12 months before	196 stories, -24% on the 12 months before	Decline
arXiv papers, last 12 months896 papers, -9% on the 12 months before	896 papers, -9% on the 12 months before	Adoption
Wikipedia views, August 202613,573, -42% on a year before	13,573, -42% on a year before	Decline
Against its high-52% from the high of May 2023	-52% from the high of May 2023	Decline
Product releases naming it10 since Sep 1, 2025	10 since Sep 1, 2025	Adoption
GitHub repositories22,207	22,207	Adoption
Conferences about it1	1	Adoption

Companies

Name	Mentions
Figma	2
Cloudflare	1

Releases

10 releases since Sep 1, 2025

Name	Date
Scribe v2 MedicalElevenLabs · Sep 11, 2026 2 weeks ago	Sep 11, 20262 weeks ago
Updates to generative plugins and shadersFigma · Sep 1, 2026 3 weeks ago	Sep 1, 20263 weeks ago
Manage app building agent contextRetool · Aug 4, 2026 7 weeks ago	Aug 4, 20267 weeks ago
Agent-generated questions to clarify user intentRetool · Jul 24, 2026 2 months ago	Jul 24, 20262 months ago
Restore changes from chatRetool · Jun 24, 2026 3 months ago	Jun 24, 20263 months ago
Introducing Generative Data AppsHex · May 12, 2026 4 months ago	May 12, 20264 months ago
Agent skills for ReplicateReplicate · Apr 21, 2026 5 months ago	Apr 21, 20265 months ago
Bring your own context to Figma Make with AttachmentsFigma · Apr 2, 2026 5 months ago	Apr 2, 20265 months ago

Papers

Name	Date
Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language ModelsGoogle · Jan 28, 2022 4 years ago	Jan 28, 20224 years ago

GitHub projects

22,207 repositories

Name	Created	Stars
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 10 months ago	Nov 10, 202510 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

1 conference

Name	Date
Prompt Engineering 2025Online · Nov 6, 2025 10 months ago	Nov 6, 202510 months ago

Movement	Stage
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

Date	What changed
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 Sep 24, 2026. Related entities from the fru.dev sites' public APIs, matched by name. How stages work.