Prompt Engineering
# Chapter 2: Prompt Engineering at Scale
## Overview
Prompt engineering isn't just writing good prompts — it's building **systems** around prompts. At scale, you need versioning, testing, evaluation, and deployment pipelines for prompts, just like you do for code.
## Key Concepts
### System Prompts vs User Promptswhen to use it
Community prompt sourced from the open-source GitHub repo vishwasvijayabaskar-code/ai-system-design-primer (MIT). A "Prompt Engineering" style prompt — adapt the placeholders and specifics to your task. Imported as-is and not independently retested here, so check the output before relying on it.
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