Stop Prompt Engineering. Start Requirement Engineering.
For the past two years, the tech world has insisted that mastering prompt engineering is the path to better AI outcomes. Entire courses, newsletters, and YouTube channels promise a magic phrase that will unlock more useful answers from models. After thousands of interactions with Claude, ChatGPT, and other systems, I have a different take: most prompt problems are actually requirement problems. This distinction matters. Prompt engineering is primarily about how you ask; requirement engineering is about what you actually want....