Prompt Engineering: Patterns That Survive Model Updates

Prompt engineering has a branding problem. It sounds like a dark art of secret phrases. It is not. Good prompting is just clear specification — telling a model who it should be, what you want, what it needs to know, and what the output must look like.

The phrases that trend on social media stop working the moment a model updates. Patterns do not. A pattern is a reusable structure for organising a request, and the same handful of patterns work across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity.

This pillar teaches prompting as a transferable skill you can drill. Start with the core patterns, then practise combining them in Iro AI's Prompt Lab until the right structure for a task becomes automatic.