Prompting Is Dead in 6 Months. Andrew Ng, Stanford [video]

thelastgallon 19 points 22 comments September 08, 2026
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stackghost

Can anyone summarize? Not going to risk watching a 2 hour video.

orbital-decay

The next logical step is to express execution graphs in a formalized language.

simonw

This is a mislabeled upload of stolen content. The original video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuZoDsNmG_s - on the official Stanford Online YouTube account. It has the title "Stanford CS230 | Autumn 2025 | Lecture 9: Career Advice in AI" and was published 8 months ago. The linked video was uploaded 3 days ago with the misleading title "Prompting is dead in 6 months" and the following description: > During the lecture at Stanford, Andrew Ng gave a direct warning: Prompting will be dead in 6 months. Graphs are what's replacing it. > He breaks down why prompt engineering has hit a ceiling. Instead of tweaking long instruction blocks, developers are wiring models into execution graphs where agents fix their own errors and pass state through loops without manual intervention. That is a total misrepresentation of the talk. The word "graph" does not appear a single time in the transcript, and the talk is about career advice.

tehsauce

missing label 2025?

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