Editing Openai/6939b23e-87cc-8001-bdd9-9546d1143ce9 (section)

==== - Imagine you walk into the library and hand the robots a note (the prompt). ====
* How you write the note affects how the robots interpret it: - A short vague note → robots guess wildly - A detailed step-by-step note → robots produce structured reasoning steps
* You’re essentially guiding the robots in how to deploy their knowledge.
* Example: - Prompt: “Solve this math problem” → robots jump to predicting the final number - Prompt: “Think step by step before solving this math problem” → robots generate intermediate calculations as “notes in the margins” before giving the answer

Key point: Prompt engineering shapes how the fixed library behaves. It doesn’t change the robots themselves, but it influences what they output.