Prompt Engineering — Interview Cheat Sheet

A print-ready, 2-page A4 interview cheat sheet distilled from my prompt-engineering video.

Front: the mechanism, not tricks — prompts steer next-word prediction; vague in = average out; few-shot locks output shape; "let's think step by step" buys the model computation (the 2022 study: five words, 18% → 79%); debug prompts like code, one variable per rerun.

Back: the 6 questions GenAI interviews ask about prompting — why wording matters, why vague prompts fail, when few-shot beats instructions, why chain-of-thought works, a debugging walkthrough, and whether prompting can reduce hallucinations (with the honest boundary) — complete answers, plus 3 traps.

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