Artificial Intelligence
Medium
Theory
Prompting changes the instructions at inference time, while fine-tuning changes model weights using additional training data.
Prompting is faster to iterate
Fine-tuning can shape style or behavior
Use the lighter tool first
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Artificial Intelligence
Medium
Theory
Context engineering is the practice of selecting and shaping the right instructions, retrieved knowledge, tool outputs, and memory before a model call.
Bigger context is not always better
Relevance matters more than volume
Ordering and formatting affect results
What is context engineering?
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Artificial Intelligence
Easy
Theory
Prompt engineering is the practice of structuring instructions and context so a model produces more reliable outputs.
Instruction quality matters
Examples can shape behavior
Evaluation is still required
What is prompt engineering?
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