← Back to PeopleRBResearcherRick BattleStaff Machine Learning Engineer at VMwareLinkedInApplied Machine Learning Researcher and Engineer specializing in Natural Language Processing1Mentions1Articles1OutletsCompanies CoveredIntel Labs1Microsoft1Red Hat1Stable Diffusion XL1VMware1ArticlesMost recent firstMentioned InReferenced in coveragePrompt Engineering Is DeadIEEE SpectrumcautiousMar 23, 2026“Conducted research finding that LLMs can optimize their own prompts better than humans, making manual prompt engineering obsolete.”