{
  "id": 4362500,
  "title": "Prompt Engineering Is Dead. Long Live Harness Engineering.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/30/prompt-engineering-is-dead-long-live-harness-engineering",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-30T06:41:50.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/kenimo49/prompt-engineering-is-dead-long-live-harness-engineering-5d5f"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "I spent 3 months perfecting prompts. Then I deleted half of them. In late 2023 I had a directory called prompts/ with 47 carefully tuned templates. Few-shot examples, Chain-of-Thought scaffolds, a tiny ReAct loop I was very proud of. I'd A/B tested wording. I'd argued on Twitter about whether \"Let's think step by step\" still worked. By mid-2025 I deleted 23 of them. They weren't wrong. They just…",
  "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."
}