From Prompts to Specifications: How Great Engineers Communicate with AI
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How Great Engineers Communicate with AI in the Agentic Era​
AI has changed how we write software. But more importantly, it has changed how we communicate intent.
Early conversations about AI-assisted development focused heavily on prompt engineering. Developers experimented with phrasing tricks, formatting styles, and clever instructions to coax better outputs from language models. Entire communities formed around "the perfect prompt."
That phase was useful, but it was never the destination.