r/PromptEngineering

414k members
r/PromptEngineering is a subreddit with 414k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and pain & anger, and the community frequently discusses prompt, ai, chatgpt, tool, and tired.
Prompt engineering is the application of engineering practices to the development of prompts - i.e., inputs into generative models like GPT or Midjourney.

Popular Themes in r/PromptEngineering

#1
Solution Requests
: "PromptBar - a tiny menu bar app to edit and copy your daily prompts"
4 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "How's your relationship with prompting going? Wins, frustrations, and everything in between"
1 post
#3
Self-Promotion
: "Built a VS Code extension for managing prompts to fix my mess"
1 post
#4
News
: "Honest breakdown — "Prompt Engineer" job postings are down 30-40% since 2023, but here's why the skill is more valuable than ever"
1 post

Popular Topics in r/PromptEngineering

#1

Prompt

39 posts
#2

Ai

33 posts
#3

Chatgpt

11 posts
#4

Tool

10 posts
#5

Tired

9 posts
#6

Engineering

7 posts
#7

Struggling

5 posts
#8

Gpt

5 posts
#9

Course

3 posts
#10

System

3 posts

Flair Used in r/PromptEngineering

#1
General Discussion
: "i stopped asking AI to write stuff. i make it choose instead. the difference is wild."
76 posts
#2
Prompt Text / Showcase
: "anthropic quietly released free industry packs that turn claude into a specialist. the legal one reviews a contract the way a lawyer would"
40 posts
#3
Tips and Tricks
: "Best AI Humanizer of 2026 (Tested Against GPTZero, Turnitin & More)"
20 posts
#4
Tools and Projects
: "I turned Wikipedia's "Signs of AI Writing" into an open-source self-edit checklist skill for LLM agents"
17 posts
#5
Quick Question
: "Do you still write long prompts?"
15 posts
#6
Requesting Assistance
: "Where do I start if I’ve never used AI or computer languages before? How do I learn how to use these tools?"
8 posts
#7
Tutorials and Guides
: "The 5 prompt sequence I run before committing to any plan, because one prompt never argues with itself"
4 posts
#8
AI Produced Content
: "I made a free beginner guide to getting better results from AI. I’d genuinely like feedback."
4 posts
#9
Prompt Collection
: "What do prompts behind real scientific discoveries actually look like? Compiled 12 (growing) battle-tested prompts"
4 posts
#10
Ideas & Collaboration
: "I built a Popperian Falsification Prompt to stop LLM confirmation bias (Testing your plans against plausible black swans)"
3 posts

Member Growth in r/PromptEngineering

Yearly
+189k members(84.1%)

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Last updated: September 10, 2026