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prompt-engineering

4 essays on this topic.

Papers
  1. The Expert Illusion

    Why 'you are an expert' is the most popular and least useful prompt engineering technique

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.