A third-grade peanut butter sandwich assignment, and why it explains what people get wrong about prompt engineering.
In third grade I had to write a how-to for making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I thought I'd nailed it. Four steps:
Get the bread.
Get the peanut butter and the jelly.
Spread the peanut butter on one slice, the jelly on the other.
Put them together.
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