How to Write Better Prompts: The CO-STAR Framework (Tested)
Most prompt advice boils down to "be specific," which is true and useless. After months of running the same controlled test — five people, same task…
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The Anatomy of a High-Performing AI Image Prompt: Lessons from 400+ Prompts
I run a library of 400+ copy-paste AI image prompts. After writing, organizing, and watching people use that many prompts across Gemini, Midjourney,…
Best Prompt Injection Detection and Defense Tools for Enterprise AI Agents in 2026
Prompt injection becomes a different security problem when an AI agent can send an email, update a CRM, modify a record, or trigger a workflow. Dete…
Claude Code's keep-coding-instructions kept 1,044 tokens in the full prompt, 0 in the short one, and 18 of 18 fixes matched
On Claude Code 2.1.289 with Opus 5.5, keep-coding-instructions: true decided whether a 1,044-token # Doing tasks section stayed in the system prompt…
Getting Real Work Out of Two Kimi K2 Conversations: A Prompt Template for Code and Data Tasks
I'm leony, an indie maker. I run kimi-k2.net , a small independent web chat for Kimi models (it calls the Moonshot AI API under the hood, but it isn…
Tell the AI What It Cannot Touch: Why Hard Constraints Beat Better Prompts
Most people ask an AI for "a better resume" and get back something that reads well and is wrong. The numbers have been rounded up, the second page h…
The Placebo Effect of AI: When Believing in the Model's Intelligence Improves Outcomes
A college student struggling with insomnia asks an AI chatbot for help. The bot suggests a generic relaxation technique, one that could have been pu…
Non-English Prompts Cost More Tokens, Context and Money in Most LLMs
Claude Opus 5 costs $5 per million input tokens whether a prompt arrives in English or in Russian. What changes between the two languages is how man…
The Silicon Curtain: Will the World Split Into AI Blocs With Incompatible Models?
Ask ChatGPT about Taiwan and you'll get one answer. Ask DeepSeek, its Chinese counterpart, and you'll get something fundamentally different. Same te…
Designing AI Reports to Make the Information You Need Easier to Find
Summary AI helped me by connecting fragments of information and explaining how they fit together. But as its explanations became more comprehensive,…
What Makes a Seedance Prompt Usable? Camera Moves, Beats, and Constraints
I’m leony, an indie maker, and I’ve been collecting Seedance experiments because a vague video idea is not always a useful video prompt. “A cinemati…
A prompt vocabulary
Most of what I type to a model, I have typed before. This post is about giving those sentences names and reaching for them by name, instead of writi…
Once I wrote in the MCP tool description when to use the tool, AI agents called it
Summary I built an MCP tool that assigns multiple independent tasks to subagents and has the subagents execute them in parallel. Below, I call this…
My AI Development Prompts
I'm not going to lie, deep down I still love to actually build things (UI and code), but the simple truth is I still have more ideas then time and I…
We Replaced a 2,300-Character Image Prompt With One Sentence
Our prompt for making AI images look real used to be 2,300 characters long. It listed every AI tell to remove, every camera detail to add, and rules…
prompts.chat: The World's Largest Open-Source Prompt Library (167,000 Stars)
Two years ago, it was a simple GitHub list called "Awesome ChatGPT Prompts". Today, it has become the world's largest open-source prompt library – w…
12 Prompt Habits to Change for Claude Opus 5.5
Claude Opus 5.5 came out on September 22. It costs $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens, 20% less than Opus 5. Anthropic sa…
I rerolled one AI video prompt 10 times. The prompt was the problem, not the dice.
When an AI video clip comes out wrong, the reflex is to hit generate again. Sometimes that's right: video models are probabilistic, and some takes a…
Image prompting lessons: stop describing the image, hand the model a reference sheet
Thirteen rounds, one afternoon, one word. The word was ONLINE and I wanted it drawn in a particular chunky cartoon style. I have the whole log becau…
What to do in such situations: Developing an app integrated with generative AI
Hello, I’m pj-corridor, an engineer. In this article, I will introduce the challenges I faced while developing an application integrated with genera…
I made my coding agent audit my prompt before it writes anything
The cost of a vague prompt is paid at the end, not the start. You learn what the model assumed only after it has finished building on the assumption…
When A User Tells The Bot It's Wrong, And The Bot Just Believes Them
A subtle failure mode shows up constantly in deployed conversational systems that almost never gets caught in standard testing, because it only appe…
When The Bot Has Three Tools Available And Confidently Picks The Wrong One
Once a conversational system gets wired up to more than one external tool, database lookup, calendar booking, payment processing, a new failure cate…
LLM - Day 3 - Prompt Eng 2
REACT Framework ( Reasoning & Action ) LLM is model or a model file. இப்ப ஒரு LLM Model வந்து என்கிட்ட இருக்கு , அந்த Model வந்து ஏதோ ஒரு set of…
The Ownership Gap: Why AI Workflow Failures Sit Unfixed for Weeks
The Ownership Gap: Why AI Workflow Failures Sit Unfixed for Weeks When an AI workflow breaks in production, the path to fixing it is not obvious. A…
Prompt engineering vs fine-tuning: which one do you need?
Every LLM team hits the same fork eventually, either keep steering the prompt or start training the model. Here's how to read the signals before you…
Why Your Prompts Fail (and the Anatomy That Works)
Most prompts fail not because you forgot a magic phrase but because you are driving a probabilistic sequence model with a brittle text interface. Th…
Master Prompts in 2026: Stop Prompting Like It's 2023
Master Prompts in 2026: Stop Prompting Like It's 2023 I still see people paste a 40-line “act as a senior expert with 20 years of experience” block…
The AI Agent Playbook: 4 Frameworks to Reclaim Focus
🎙️ Short on time? Explore the 10-Min Interactive Visual Deck first ➔ In the modern landscape of knowledge work, the primary operational bottleneck i…
Why more context makes your AI answers worse
Your model says it has a one-million-token context window. Its real working memory is a lot smaller than that. On long-context benchmarks, models st…