The Day Prompting Ended

Reasoners didn’t kill prompting.
They killed guessing.

Bigger models infer structure — but they can’t infer clarity.
Every word now carries weight, not as command syntax, but as signal integrity.

The next literacy isn’t how to write prompts.
It’s how to translate intent — goals, context, and ethics — into machine-readable form.

Prompt engineering was the age of syntax.
Prompt alignment is the age of sense-making.
We’ve entered the signal era.

-Lindsai Fitzpatrick