Noah Hein, from Latent Space University, is launching a free lightning course on AI Engineering, while Sander Schulhoff helped create The Prompt Report, a definitive guide to prompt engineering. They discuss the vast landscape of over 1,600 scholarly papers on prompting techniques, the evolution of prompt engineering into a core skill for AI engineers, and ethical implications of AI-generated academic content. With insights into optimizing AI models and real-world applications of prompting strategies, this conversation is a treasure trove for AI enthusiasts.