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  "id": 1397150,
  "title": "Socrates Was the World's First — and Best — Prompt Engineer",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/socrates-was-the-worlds-first-and-best-prompt-engineer",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-17T01:13:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/sanyaduan/socrates-was-the-worlds-first-and-best-prompt-engineer-2fd8"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Socrates Was the World's First — and Best — Prompt Engineer And the 6 Socratic Question Types Are Still the Most Powerful Prompt Templates in 2026 The Quote That Stopped Me Li Fei-Fei said something that keeps showing up in AI circles: \"If Socrates were alive today, he would be the best prompter. Prompting is fundamentally the art of asking questions to pursue truth.\" Most people share it and…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}