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R0023/2026-03-25/Q002/S01
Research R0023 — Counterproductive advice and prompt lifecycle
Run 2026-03-25
Query Q002
Search S01

WebSearch — Popular prompt engineering guides and their authors

Summary

Field Value
Source/Database WebSearch (2 queries combined)
Query terms (1) prompt engineering guides authorship who wrote popular guides researchers vs marketers; (2) Elvis Saravia promptingguide.ai background credentials
Filters None
Results returned 20
Results selected 5
Results rejected 15

Selected Results

Result Title URL Rationale
S01-R01 DAIR.AI Prompt Engineering Guide (GitHub) https://github.com/dair-ai/Prompt-Engineering-Guide Most-starred prompt engineering guide on GitHub
S01-R02 Learn Prompting https://learnprompting.org/docs/introduction Leading interactive prompt engineering course
S01-R03 Elvis Saravia bio and credentials http://elvissaravia.com/about/ Author profile for the DAIR.AI guide
S01-R04 Sander Schulhoff bio https://sanderschulhoff.com/ Author profile for Learn Prompting and The Prompt Report
S01-R05 Anthropic prompt engineering tutorial (GitHub) https://github.com/anthropics/prompt-eng-interactive-tutorial Vendor guide with identifiable authorship

Rejected Results

Result Title URL Rationale
S01-R06 Google Cloud prompt engineering guide https://cloud.google.com/discover/what-is-prompt-engineering Vendor guide, no individual authorship
S01-R07 Lakera prompt engineering guide https://www.lakera.ai/blog/prompt-engineering-guide Company blog, not a primary influential guide
S01-R08 Skai marketers guide https://skai.io/blog/marketers-guide-to-prompt-engineering/ Marketing-specific, not a primary influential guide
S01-R09 TofuHQ marketing guide https://www.tofuhq.com/post/tactical-guide-to-prompt-engineering-for-marketing-and-growth-professionals Marketing-specific
S01-R10 Kopp Online Marketing guide https://www.kopp-online-marketing.com/prompt-engineering-guide-tutorial-best-practises-examples Marketing tutorial
S01-R11 Foundation Inc marketers guide https://foundationinc.co/lab/prompt-engineering-guide-marketers/ Marketing-specific
S01-R12 DeepakNess Google guide summary https://deepakness.com/raw/google-prompt-engineering/ Summary of Google's guide
S01-R13 Elvis Saravia Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com.tw/citations?user=GTU6jHcAAAAJ&hl=en Citation index, supplementary
S01-R14 Maven course (Saravia) https://maven.com/dair-ai/prompt-engineering-llms Course listing, not authorship profile
S01-R15 Prompt-engineer.com bio https://prompt-engineer.com/elvis-saravia-the-prompt-engineering-guide/ Secondary bio
S01-R16 Sander Schulhoff personal site https://trigaten.github.io/ Duplicate of R04
S01-R17 Lenny's Newsletter interview https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/ai-prompt-engineering-in-2025-sander-schulhoff Interview, secondary
S01-R18 LearnPrompting about page https://learnprompting.org/about Organizational page
S01-R19 OpenAI API prompt engineering https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/prompt-engineering Vendor guide, no individual author
S01-R20 OpenAI Help Center guide https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6654000-best-practices-for-prompt-engineering-with-the-openai-api Vendor guide, no individual author

Notes

The search revealed a clear pattern: the most influential guides are authored by people with legitimate AI research backgrounds (Saravia: PhD, NLP researcher; Schulhoff: UMD NLP researcher). Vendor guides (OpenAI, Google) do not identify individual authors. Marketing-specific guides are prevalent but are clearly derivative rather than primary.