#22: Prompting is Dead

In this episode of Modern Logic for Your Business, Dustin Bruzenak and Andy Rahn explore a provocative idea: is prompt engineering becoming obsolete? What started as a skill focused on carefully crafting instructions has evolved into something much bigger as AI systems gain planning capabilities, longer context windows, and agentic workflows. Dustin and Andy discuss how modern AI tools increasingly ask clarifying questions, create plans, validate their own work, and operate more like collaborators than simple chatbots.

The conversation also covers OpenAI’s unusual “gremlin” phenomenon, recursive AI training, synthetic data, and the broader shift from writing prompts to designing systems. As AI becomes more autonomous, the most valuable skill may no longer be prompt engineering itself, but understanding how to structure workflows, manage context, and direct intelligent systems toward useful outcomes.

🔗 Resources and mentions from this episode:

• OpenAI GPT-5.4
• OpenAI Codex
• Anthropic Claude
• Claude Code
• Recursive AI training and synthetic data

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