LLM Context Windows: Trade-offs Beyond Token Count
Why bigger context windows are not always better: cost, attention degradation, retrieval design, and how to architect for long-context tasks.
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Prompt Engineering Anti-Patterns: Mistakes That Quietly Hurt Quality
A field guide to the most common prompt engineering anti-patterns, why they degrade LLM output quality, and concrete refactors that fix each one.
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Prompt Engineering: Chain of Thought
Use chain-of-thought prompting to unlock multi-step reasoning, with zero-shot, few-shot, and structured variants for production use.
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Prompt Engineering: Evaluation Loops
How to build evaluation loops for prompts so you can iterate with evidence instead of vibes. Covers datasets, graders, regressions, and how to make eval cheap enough to run often.
·4 min read · #prompt-engineering#evals#llm
Prompt Engineering: Few-shot vs Zero-shot
Decide between zero-shot and few-shot prompting by weighing example quality, cost, and how strictly you need to control output format.
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Prompt Engineering: Output Formatters
How to coax LLMs into producing predictable, parseable output using output formatters, JSON schemas, examples, and validation loops that actually hold up in production code paths.
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Prompt Engineering: The ReAct Pattern
Learn the ReAct pattern, a prompting technique that combines reasoning and action to build effective tool-using LLM agents.
·4 min read · #prompt-engineering#react#agents
Prompt Engineering: Self-Consistency for Reliable LLM Outputs
Learn how self-consistency prompting samples multiple reasoning paths and aggregates answers to improve accuracy, with hands-on examples and trade-offs.
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Prompt Engineering: System Prompts Guide
Write system prompts that steer model behavior reliably: role, format, constraints, refusals, and evaluation patterns that actually work.
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Prompt Engineering Techniques for Developers
Practical prompt engineering for building software with LLMs: structure, few-shot, chain-of-thought, role messages, and what actually moves quality.
·5 min read · #llm#prompt-engineering#few-shot
Prompt Engineering: Tree of Thought for Deliberate Reasoning
Explore Tree of Thought prompting, which lets LLMs branch, evaluate, and backtrack through reasoning steps to solve problems chain-of-thought cannot.
·4 min read · #prompt-engineering#tree-of-thought#reasoning
Prompt Engineering with Tools and Functions
How to write prompts and tool definitions that make function calling reliable. Covers schemas, descriptions, examples, error handling, and patterns for multi-tool agents.
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