Talk argues prompts are the wrong abstraction for reliable agents
Engineer Dan McFunley's talk "Prompts Aren't Real" argues builders should stop exchanging text with LLMs and instead build interlocking evaluation and optimization pipelines. He draws on 25 years in engineering and recent work making consumer-facing agents run reliably in production.
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