Posts about prompt-engineering
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The Expert Illusion
Why 'you are an expert' is the most popular and least useful prompt engineering technique
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Software Engineering Principles for AI Instruction Files
LLM instruction files are code. They have the same failure modes — with one interesting twist that changes everything.
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Skills as Behavioral Nudges: The Lightweight Alternative to Fine-Tuning
We fine-tune models with gradient descent. We nudge agents with skill files. Same goal, radically different cost.
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Don't Ask Your AI to Find Problems
Ask for bugs and you'll get bugs — whether they exist or not. Sycophancy is a design feature, and the fix isn't better prompting.