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On October 25, 2026, Riley Goodside, once regarded as the world's first formally titled prompt engineer, publicly declared that "prompt engineering is dead," and said that ordinary users can simply ask however they like. He added that the workload of engineers who write underlying prompts for systems, fine-tune small models, and embed prompts into applications has not decreased; what has died is only the prompt-writing skills that ordinary users were once required to have. The same report also mentioned that Chainguard, with a single sentence—"find remotely exploitable high-severity vulnerabilities in PHP"—got its self-built system to reproduce known vulnerabilities and verify the official fixes. At present, this claim appears only in this one report, and no other independent source has cross-verified it.
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Riley Goodside Says Prompt Engineering Is Dead: Ordinary Users Can Just Ask Directly
Riley Goodside, once regarded as the world's first officially titled prompt engineer, has publicly declared that "prompt engineering is dead"—ordinary users can ask whatever they want, however they want. He added that the workload of engineers who write underlying prompts for systems, fine-tune small models, and embed prompts into applications has not decreased; what has died is only the prompt-crafting skill that ordinary users were once required to have. Chainguard used a single sentence—"find remotely exploitable high-severity vulnerabilities in PHP"—to get its self-built system to reproduce known vulnerabilities and verify official fixes.