Prompt Golf – Write the shortest prompt to get a target output

A new pastime called "prompt golf" challenges participants to write the shortest possible prompt that produces a target output from a large language model, according to a post marking ChatGPT's upcoming second anniversary. The post frames the activity as "prompt engineering for babies" and cites the "strawberry" letter-counting test as an example of the gap between memorized reasoning and genuine thought.

Prompt engineering for babies. It can't think, it's just memorised how to reason. How many R's are in the word strawberry? The real AGI was the friends we couped along the way. On the unreasonable addictiveness of prompt golf. ChatGPT is turning 2 years old, let's celebrate