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My Agent Never Said "I Don't Know"
I'm a product manager. I write specs, run reviews, align stakeholders. Last year I got tired of handing things off and waiting. I picked up vibe codin…
You Can't Prompt Your Way Out of a Hard Constraint
Thursday morning I removed five nodes from my content pipeline. By lunch I understood something about building with language models that eleven failed…
A Refreshing Perspective on AI and Truth
Everyone has a favorite movie. Some of us ask why. A kid might say Spiderverse. A cinephile might insist on Lawrence of Arabia. A film historian might…
One Open Source Project a Day (No. 78): stop-slop - A Skill File That Teaches AI to Eliminate Its Own Writing Tells
Introduction "If it sounds like a pull-quote, rewrite it." This is the 78th article in the "One Open Source Project a Day" series. Today's project is …
Garden Visualizer - Would Results Improve Using Example Images? (Screenshots Included)
Perfect Prompts Needed? In creating a garden visualizer to help home owners with their landscape decisions, I assumed that I needed to "program" the t…
Types of Prompting: Complete Guide to Prompting Techniques
I spent two weeks blaming Claude for being useless. Turns out Claude wasn't the problem—I just had no idea how to ask it anything. That's when I reali…
HiDream Raw Output Failed Tried Dev-2604 VRAM Math Killed It Won with a Prompt Enhancer Instead
TL;DR HiDream-O1-Image 8B Full raw outputs collapse on plain Japanese prompts — both instruction-following and aesthetics fail at once Tried to swap t…
The Missing Engineering Stack for Production AI Agents
The "build an agent in 5 minutes" tutorials get you to a demo. They don't get you to production. Here's the field guide for the four primitives that d…
200K Token Context Windows: Practical Workflows That Actually Work
You have 200,000 tokens to work with—but most people are still copy-pasting text like they're fighting a 4K limit that doesn't exist anymore. I watche…
XML Tags Don't Help Short Prompts — Here's When They Actually Matter (2026)
The Conventional Wisdom Every prompt engineering guide says the same thing: wrap your prompt sections in XML tags. <instructions> , <schema&g…
The Difference Between a Consumer Prompt and Production Infrastructure
Most companies are building enterprise AI using consumer habits. An engineer writes a system prompt, tests it five times in a playground environment, …
Tool Definition Drift: When Your Agent's Toolset Outgrows Its Prompt
Book: Prompt Engineering Pocket Guide: Techniques for Getting the Most from LLMs Also by me: Thinking in Go (2-book series) — Complete Guide to Go Pro…
Production LLM Guardrails: 8 Controls Every AI Team Needs
Most AI projects fail somewhere between demo works and production ships . The gap is rarely the model. It's the absence of the controls that turn a on…
How We Built a Conflict Resolver That Uses Psychology Frameworks as Prompts
We're building Verdict Buddy — an AI-powered conflict resolution tool that translates established psychology frameworks into structured prompts. Here'…
TOON File Format Anatomy: Schema-Once, Data-Many for LLM Pipelines 🎯📄
If you work with RAG pipelines, agent tools, or LLM APIs, you’ve probably noticed something frustrating: sometimes the biggest cost in a prompt is not…