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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.

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Signals

DeclineHacker News stories, last 12 months190 stories, -25% on the 12 months before
DeclinearXiv papers, last 12 months783 papers, -24% on the 12 months before
DeclineWikipedia views, October 202615,364, -30% on a year before
DeclineAgainst its high-58% from the high of May 2023
AdoptionProduct releases naming it13 since Feb 19, 2026AdoptionGitHub repositories22,207AdoptionConferences about it4
SignalReads as
Hacker News stories, last 12 months190 stories, -25% on the 12 months beforeDecline
arXiv papers, last 12 months783 papers, -24% on the 12 months beforeDecline
Wikipedia views, October 202615,364, -30% on a year beforeDecline
Against its high-58% from the high of May 2023Decline
Product releases naming it13 since Feb 19, 2026Adoption
GitHub repositories22,207Adoption
Conferences about it4Adoption

Companies

Releases

13 releases since Feb 19, 2026
Name
Code written for Claude Haiku 4.5 can break on Claude Haiku 5.5Anthropic · Oct 7, 2026 4 weeks ago
Zed 1.20.2Zed · Sep 17, 2026 7 weeks ago
Scribe v2 MedicalElevenLabs · Sep 11, 2026 8 weeks ago
Updates to generative plugins and shadersFigma · Sep 1, 2026 2 months ago
Manage app building agent contextRetool · Aug 4, 2026 3 months ago
Agent-generated questions to clarify user intentRetool · Jul 24, 2026 3 months ago
Restore changes from chatRetool · Jun 24, 2026 4 months ago
vercel@54.14.5Vercel · Jun 20, 2026 4 months ago

Papers

Name
Root-Cause Attribution Is a Search Problem: Continual Search for Long-Horizon Agent FailuresScale AI · Sep 11, 2026 8 weeks ago
Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language ModelsGoogle · Jan 28, 2022 4 years ago

GitHub projects

22,207 repositories
NameStars
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 ago78,599
anthropics/prompt-eng-interactive-tutorialAnthropic's Interactive Prompt Engineering Tutorial · Apr 2, 2024 2 years ago38,288
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 ago10,322
brexhq/prompt-engineeringTips and tricks for working with Large Language Models like OpenAI's GPT-4. · Apr 21, 2023 3 years ago9,581
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 ago9,253
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 ago8,933

Conferences

4 conferences
Name
Conf42 Prompt Engineering 2026Online · Oct 29, 2026 11 days ago
Prompt Engineering 2025Online · Nov 6, 2025 1 year ago
Conf42 Prompt Engineering 2024Online · Nov 21, 2024 1 year ago
Prompt Engineering Conference 2023Online · Oct 12, 2023 3 years ago
MovementStage
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

ChangeSep 24, 2026Tracking started: emerged July 2021, declining, 4 other names recorded
DateWhat changed
Sep 24, 2026Tracking 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.