prompting-technique-survey-2024-lack-standardization
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Created 2026-08-24T17:11:12+00:00
A 2024 survey identified 50+ text-based prompting techniques, 40 multimodal variants, and 33 distinct terms, highlighting a lack of standardized terminology in the prompt engineering field.
Summary
The prompt engineering field currently has no agreed-upon vocabulary, with over 90 different techniques and terms in use without a shared framework for naming or categorizing them. This fragmentation makes it hard for practitioners to compare approaches, build on each other's work, or communicate clearly about what actually works.