The Evolution of Prompting — Interactive Explorer

Six years of prompting milestones, vendor techniques, and the slow slide from prompt engineering to context engineering · 2020 → 2026

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Each vendor has a preferred recipe for the same task. Switch between task types to see how Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google diverge — and where they converge. Templates are copy-paste ready; swap the {{PLACEHOLDERS}} for your own content.

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