#prompt-engineering
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6 articles
Knowing when to stop
Six hours in, one step left, everything green, and the incident that didn't happen
Prompt testing: build a lightweight eval set
A prompt that works once isn't a quality system. Five cases, an observable rubric, and a regression set will tell you whether a change helped.
How to Write Better AI Prompts: A Practical Framework
Better prompts aren't magic wording. They're short briefs that hand the model a task, the context it can't infer, the limits, and a quality bar.
Ship a prompt like code: a five-case eval harness you can build in an hour
You wouldn't ship a function you ran once. Here's the smallest evaluation setup that catches real regressions — five cases, three graders, and a rule for when to add a sixth.
The instruction file is the highest-leverage file in your repo
AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, copilot-instructions.md and .cursor/rules all solve the same problem. Most of them are written badly. Here's what changes agent behaviour and what's decoration.
Prompt, skill, workflow, recipe, template, agent: a working taxonomy
The words are used interchangeably and they shouldn't be. Six categories, what actually distinguishes them, and how to tell which one you're holding.