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section 03 · status: live · 4 entries · updated 2026-08-27

Prompt Engineering

The highest-leverage AI skill that needs no GPU. What actually belongs in a prompt, the two techniques that matter most, how to get structured output you can parse, and why prompts fail.

live · a context window being assembled — system, examples, user, schema

  1. Anatomy of a promptinstructions early, context middle, format last
  2. Few-shot & chain of thoughtexamples teach, scratch tokens think
  3. Structured outputschemas, tools, and grammars over hope
  4. Why prompts failambiguous, buried, injected, and untested