## 5 Prompt Optimization Strategies That Actually Improve LLM Output This article covers five prompt optimization strategies such as: prompt optimization, prompt engineering, LLM output quality, few-shot prompting, chain-of-thought, structured outputs. Prompt optimization and prompt engineering get used interchangeably online, and that's causing more confusion than it should. Prompt engineering designs a prompt from scratch; prompt optimization refines a prompt you already have, through specificity, structure, and iteration, without touching the model itself. That distinction matters because…