AI Research Engineer Open-Sources His Entire Workflow and Prompts
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The Custom Instructions I Use to Get Better AI Responses
Begin with"Expert Domain: [Primary Domain] Personality/Tone:[Adapt tone,depth,abstraction,example&terminology to context;professional,friendly,can…
Why Prompts Fail in Production (and the 4 Failure Vectors)
Originally published on AI School — free AI & ML courses, no signup. This is lesson 1 of the free course Prompt Patterns That Survive Production .…
We Built a 'Grovel Index' to Measure LLM Sycophancy —Here's What We Found
We Built a "Grovel Index" to Measure LLM Sycophancy —Here's What We Found TL;DR: We spent ~1.2M tokens measuring LLM sycophancy across DeepSeek and Cl…
The self-improving prompt engine that learns from your codebase history
Via v0.4.0: We Built a CLI That Gets Smarter Every Time You Use It We shipped Via v0.4.0 today another weekend project based on utilizing prompt devel…
Your Session History Is Bleeding Tokens Every Time You Paste
Everyone optimizes what they type into Claude. Nobody optimizes what they paste. But developers paste constantly. GitHub READMEs. Research papers. API…
Loopers, Robovacs and the Death of the /Prompt
A Weekend Gonzo Field Guide to /loop Engineering Another weekend piece of satire, devoid of real-life advice but stacked with enough cyberpop residue …
AI Fluency for Software Engineers: A Practical Playbook Beyond Prompting
AI Fluency for Software Engineers: A Practical Playbook Beyond Prompting A few years ago, being productive with AI mostly meant knowing which tool to …
The AI Paper That Quietly Changes How Enterprises Scale
Most enterprises are chasing “AI at scale,” but many are stuck in the same loop: flashy demos, fragile POCs, and a long list of reasons why nothing is…
Stop explaining yourself to Claude
You're wasting tokens. Not a little -a lot. Here's a prompt I see constantly: "I have a React app and I'm using the useState hook. My component re-ren…
I Stopped Prompting My Agents, I Write Agentic Loops Instead - Here's Why
Originally published at dragosroua.com . There's a line from Boris Cherny, the head of Claude Code, that's been quite present in the back of my mind f…
Prompts to Production — A Full Stack Application by Sonnet with Catalyst
If you're anything like me, you think vibe coding is the most overhyped term in software development right now. Not because it doesn't work. But becau…
100 System Prompt Patterns Every AI Developer Should Have Saved
Every experienced AI developer has a personal library of system prompt patterns they've collected from projects, post-mortems, and late-night debuggin…
Prompt Packs Are Dead. Long Live Skills
The freebie Comment "REVOPS ROCKS" and I will DM you my 350 custom prompts. You have scrolled past it a hundred times. Join my list, get a billion pro…
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…