# Prompts for Work & Play: Launching the Wolfram Prompt Repository—Stephen Wolfram Writings

<https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/06/prompts-for-work-play-launching-the-wolfram-prompt-repository/>

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## What Jamie wrote

I've been dismissive of the idea that "prompt engineering" is a new job with any staying power, however the concept of prompt engineering is relevant, at least for now, and this repository looks like a first of its kind.

> LLMs are powerful things. And one might wonder why, if one has a description for a prompt, one can’t just use that description directly, rather than having to store a prewritten prompt. Well, sometimes just using the description will indeed work fine. But often it won’t. Sometimes that’s because one needs to clarify further what one wants. Sometimes it’s because there are not-immediately-obvious corner cases to cover. And sometimes there’s just a certain amount of “LLM wrangling” to be done. And this all adds up to the need to do at least some “prompt engineering” on almost any prompt.

The examples are great to show what this does.

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