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The Prompt Is Dead: Why We Need to Shift from "Prompt Engineering" to "Cognitive Scaffolding"

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I spent three hours yesterday trying to write the "perfect" prompt for my project. And then I realized: I wasn’t engineering. I was praying. Prompt engineering is dead. What we need now is cognitive scaffolding—a smarter, more structured way to think with AI, not just talk at it. The Problem with P…

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  1. 2026-09-14 05:27 · DEV Community — AI
    The Prompt Is Dead: Why We Need to Shift from "Prompt Engineering" to "Cognitive Scaffolding"

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