5 Claude Code Prompts That Stop Small Changes From Breaking Your Project
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How to Fact-Check ChatGPT: The Copy-Paste Prompt I Use to Verify AI Output
A ChatGPT answer doesn't stay in the chat window. It gets pasted into a PR description, quoted in a design doc, repeated in a meeting as "apparently…"…
Building a Public Backlog of AI Agent Failures: What's the Worst Thing Your Tests Didn't Catch?
Not looking for a highlight reel of prompt injection screenshots, more interested in the mundane stuff: the agent that called the wrong tool with conf…
The Best Prompt Engineering Lesson I Did Not Expect to Learn
A few weeks ago, I completed Anthropic Education's AI Frameworks and Fluency course. I joined out of curiosity. One part of the course stayed with me …
Beyond "Chat": Architecting Intelligence with Skills and Specification Engineering
Remember the days when we used to dump all our CSS and JavaScript into a single index.html file? That's exactly what a "Mega-Prompt" is today: an unma…
5 Emotion Triggers of Viral Titles: Engineer CTR With AI
You spent the afternoon writing that piece. Every claim sourced, every argument tight. You hit publish and watched the numbers. Twenty-four hours late…
Prompt Engineering Mastery: The Art of Getting Better AI Responses
Why Prompts Matter More Than You Think The difference between a great AI response and a mediocre one isn't always the model. It's the prompt. Experien…
Beyond 'Think Step by Step': How to Build a Reasoning Scaffold That Forces AI to Actually Think
"Think step by step" used to be a genuine insight. It isn't anymore — at least not as a complete prompting strategy. The phrase triggers a reasoning m…
I Built a Self-Referential AI System. Then Anthropic Discovered the Same Architecture in Claude.
LLMs drift. They forget rules mid-conversation. They cannot verify their own output. These are not bugs in a single model — they are properties of any…
Stop Fixing Your AI Writing Prompt. Make These 5 Decisions First
I used to fix weak AI drafts by asking for better prose. "Make it clearer." "Make it more persuasive." "Make it sound less generic." The output improv…
Workflow Series (06): Security — Cross-Step Injection Propagation and Four Defense Principles
Workflow Security vs Skill Security Skill security (Skill Series Article 02) protects a single call : can user input hijack this Skill's behavior? Wor…
How to Build a "Communication Profile" That Makes AI Write Exactly Like You
You've tried this. You pasted a few emails into ChatGPT, told it to "write in my style," and got back something that reads like a polished LinkedIn po…
The Agentic, Ironclad Onion
As AI agents work under increasingly less human supervision, the need for a trustworthy, secure work platform and configuration for them is critical t…
The End of "One-Shot AI": Why Context Engineering Is Replacing Prompt Engineering
Most "prompt engineering" advice circulating today is already obsolete for anyone building production-grade AI. Granular phrasing matters for simple, …
The Real Reason Prompt Engineering Isn't Going Away
Every few months, I see another post declaring: "Prompt engineering is dead." Usually, the argument goes something like this: AI models are getting sm…
When the AI Prompts You: Reversing the Relationship in Experimental Interfaces
You open an app. You expect to type a question. Instead, the app asks you one. "What are you afraid of?" You hesitate. You type: "Failure." The app as…
AI Research Engineer Open-Sources His Entire Workflow and Prompts
Fable 5 came and went. And because it was taken away so quickly, developers wanted it back even more. Scarcity has a way of making things feel more va…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…