--- title: "Prompt Engineering Tournament Results & What We Learned" url: https://daily.dev/posts/prompt-engineering-tournament-results-what-we-learned-b1hlnmcwa source_url: https://blog.promptlayer.com/prompt-engineering-tournament-results-what-we-learned type: article source: "PromptLayer Blog" published: 2026-07-05T09:43:42.862Z updated: 2026-07-05T09:44:00.449Z tags: ["llm", "rag", "prompt-engineering"] reading_time: 5 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Prompt Engineering Tournament Results & What We Learned **[PromptLayer Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/promptlayer)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary PromptLayer hosted a prompt engineering tournament with three rounds: handling AI PR disasters (safety/refusal), answering book-based homework questions accurately, and building a financial advisor prompt using RAG. Key takeaways include growing developer preference for Claude over OpenAI, the effectiveness of creative formatting (XML/pseudo-code, few-shot examples), and the continued relevance of classic prompting techniques like chain-of-thought, role play, and dos/don'ts lists. Example winning prompts are shared for each category. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#rag](https://daily.dev/tags/rag), [#prompt-engineering](https://daily.dev/tags/prompt-engineering) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/prompt-engineering-tournament-results-what-we-learned-b1hlnmcwa)