What does “Prompt Engineering” mean?

Designing or transforming input variables to make learning easier and more effective.

Additional inference computation used during response generation to improve quality or reasoning.

The input instructions and context provided to a generative model.

An attack pattern where malicious instructions are inserted into model inputs or retrieved content.

A reusable prompt pattern with variables, formatting rules, and task-specific instructions.

A model component that dynamically focuses on relevant parts of an input when producing an output.