Lenny’s Podcast117 min
AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn’t
Sander Schulhoff · Jun 19, 2025
Key learnings
- Prompt engineering remains valuable: Sander argues that bad prompts can drop accuracy near zero on a task while good prompts can…
- Few-shot prompting is the highest-impact basic technique: give the model several examples of what good output looks like, using a…
- Ask the model to decompose a problem by first listing the subproblems it needs to solve, then solving each one before answering…