Fabrikam’s executive team is trying to understand “prompt engineering” in practical terms. A senior manager claims that prompt engineering in Azure…

The statement is false. Prompt engineering is the process of designing and refining the input text (the prompt) given to a large language model to guide it toward generating the desired output. It does not involve changing the model's internal weights or parameters. The practice of modifying the model's internal weights through additional training on new data is known as "fine-tuning." Prompt engineering works with the existing, pre-trained model, skillfully crafting instructions and context to elicit better performance.

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1. Microsoft Learn, "Introduction to prompt engineering". The first paragraph explicitly states, "Prompt engineering is a process of designing and refining the input prompts given to a language model... It does not involve changing the model itself, but rather crafting the input in a way that the model can better understand and respond to."

2. Azure OpenAI Service Documentation, "Prompt engineering techniques". This document details methods like providing instructions, context, and examples within the prompt itself to control model output, distinguishing it clearly from model training or fine-tuning.