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Prompt Engineering
Craft effective prompts — chain-of-thought, few-shot, RAG, system prompts and beyond
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Dev.to · patil rushikesh
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
Prompt Engineering: The Skill That Makes AI Work Better
Artificial Intelligence tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Cursor, and Copilot have changed the way...

Dev.to · Marco Coelho
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1w ago
5 prompt engineering techniques to get the best out of a legacy project
Have you ever been at a situation where you have been recently hired to maintain a legacy project, an...

Dev.to · christine
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
What Prime Day Taught Me About Prompt Engineering
I wanted to get better at prompt engineering. Not the trick-the-robot kind, the boring-but-useful...

Dev.to · Ferhat Atagün
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Your prompt isn't better. You just remember it being better.
Most teams iterate on prompts by feel and ship by memory. The minimum useful comparison is two prompts in parallel.

Dev.to · Mukunda Rao Katta
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Prompt Engineering Hygiene: The Invisible Layer Under Your Agent Logic
Using agentprompt-rs, prompt-template-version, and prompt-replay for structured, versioned, A/B-testable prompts.

Dev.to · Gabriel Anhaia
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Prompt Diff Testing: A/B Your Prompts Without Changing the Model
A 50-line script that A/B tests prompt changes against your eval set, surfaces per-slice regressions, and posts a verdict on every PR.

Dev.to · Julien Avezou
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
The missing layer in prompt engineering: thinking quality
I've seen countless prompting trends and prompt packs to use but most discussions around prompt...

Dev.to · Dextra Labs
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Prompt Engineering Is a Real Skill, Here's the Enterprise Playbook (Not Just 'Be Specific')
System prompt architecture, few-shot design patterns, chain-of-thought for structured outputs,...

Dev.to · Gabriel Anhaia
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Tool-Calling Prompts That Don't Blow Up on the Five Edge Cases
Two valid tools, wrong arg type, infinite loops, wrong ordering, tools that should be skipped. Prompt skeleton, schema patterns, validator wrapper.

Dev.to · Wolyra
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Prompt Engineering at Scale: When It Becomes Software Engineering
In the first months of an AI initiative, prompt engineering is something an individual engineer does...

Dev.to · TechPulse Lab
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Your prompt pack isn't broken. Your prompt engineering is.
Prompt packs give you outputs without the function. The five-component framework (Role, Context, Format, Examples, Output) that lets you adapt, diagnose, and co

Dev.to · Linas Valiukas
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
3mo ago
The prompt is the product
TLDR: Don't ask AI to do the thing directly. Ask it to interview you first — what are your...

Dev.to · Nova Elvaris
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
3mo ago
Prompt Unit Tests: 3 Bash Scripts That Catch Regressions Before Deploy
You changed one line in your system prompt and broke three downstream features. No tests caught it...

Dev.to · Dwelvin Morgan
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
3mo ago
We need to stop treating Prompt Engineering like "dark magic" and start treating it like software testing.
Here's the scenario. You spend two hours brainstorming and manually crafting what you think is the...

Dev.to · Midas126
✍️ Prompt Engineering
3mo ago
Beyond the Hype: A Developer's Guide to Building with AI, Not Just Prompting It
The AI Coding Paradox: More Code, More Problems? The headline is everywhere: "90% of Code...

Dev.to · The Machine Pulse
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
3mo ago
Prompt Engineering Is Dead. Prompt Architecture Is What Matters.
Stop tweaking words. Start designing systems. Five production prompt patterns — routing, fallback chains, structured output, validation loops, cost tr

Dev.to · Nebula
✍️ Prompt Engineering
3mo ago
Context Engineering for AI Agents: A Practical Guide
Learn 4 context engineering strategies for AI agents with runnable Python code. Budget your context window, compress history, and inject tools dynamically.

Dev.to · Margarita Titova
✍️ Prompt Engineering
3mo ago
What Changed When I Started Prompting AI Properly
Most QA engineers who try AI and conclude "it's not that useful" are right, but for the wrong...

Dev.to · jidonglab
✍️ Prompt Engineering
3mo ago
5,800 Lines of Code From Zero: How I Bootstrapped a Full Pipeline With AI in One Day
Saju-to-video pipeline. 4 commits. Architecture → scaffold → review → ship. The prompting pattern that kept 5,800 lines coherent.

Dev.to · VelocityAI
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4mo ago
Prompt Engineering as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Restructuring Thoughts by Restructuring Queries to Self
You wake up in the middle of the night, mind racing. "What if I fail? What if everything goes wrong?...

Dev.to · Dean Sharon
✍️ Prompt Engineering
4mo ago
How I strip 90% of code before feeding it to my coding agent
Context windows keep growing. 200k tokens. A million. The assumption is that bigger windows mean...

Dev.to · v. Splicer
✍️ Prompt Engineering
4mo ago
What I Unlearned About Prompt Engineering After Actually Shipping With It
The first version went live at 2:17 a.m. Not a launch party. Not a thread. Not a cinematic build in...

Dev.to · Solo Dev
✍️ Prompt Engineering
4mo ago
Technical Deep Dive: Veo 3.1 JSON Prompt Engineering
Why Your Natural Language Prompts Are Breaking (And How JSON Fixes It) I've spent the last...

Dev.to · Harish Kotra (he/him)
✍️ Prompt Engineering
4mo ago
Implementing A/B Testing for Prompts in LangChain
Prompt engineering requires constant iteration. A common pattern is to have a "Production Prompt" and...

Dev.to · Hafiz
✍️ Prompt Engineering
5mo ago
Laravel AI SDK: What It Changes, Why It Matters, and Should You Use It?
Laravel AI SDK deep dive with real code comparisons. See how it replaces openai-php and Prism with first-party agents, streaming, and structured output.

Dev.to · Siddhesh Surve
✍️ Prompt Engineering
5mo ago
OpenAI Just Got "Swarmed": Kimi k2.5 and the Death of the Single Agent
Forget "Chain of Thought." The new meta is "Chain of Agents." And it’s running locally. If you...

Dev.to · Jubin Soni
✍️ Prompt Engineering
5mo ago
AWS Bedrock vs. SageMaker: Choosing the Right GenAI Stack in 2026
By 2026, the landscape of Generative AI has shifted from simple prompt engineering to complex agentic...

Dev.to · VelocityAI
✍️ Prompt Engineering
5mo ago
Multimodal Prompting: The Next Frontier-How to Juggle Text, Images, and Files in a Single Request
Until now, working with AI felt like having separate, brilliant specialists in soundproof rooms. You...

Dev.to · Shubham Gupta
✍️ Prompt Engineering
5mo ago
Prompt Engineering: The Art of Talking to Robots
The Prompt Whisperer's Guide (You, after reading this article) You've learned what LLMs...

Dev.to · Dr Hernani Costa
✍️ Prompt Engineering
5mo ago
Anthropic's Free Prompt Engineering Course for Developers
Anthropic's Free Prompt Engineering Course: AI Skills Boost By Dr. Hernani Costa — June...

Dev.to · hassantayyab
✍️ Prompt Engineering
5mo ago
The Complete Guide to Prompt Engineering for Angular Developers
If you've ever pasted code into an AI and gotten back something that looks like it was written in...

Dev.to · osman uygar köse
✍️ Prompt Engineering
5mo ago
Prompt Engineering a Barista: How SQLatte's Personality Transforms SQL into Conversations
The Problem: SQL Tools Feel Like Robots Most NL2SQL tools have boring prompts: # ❌...

Dev.to · Hamza Khan
✍️ Prompt Engineering
5mo ago
3 Prompt Engineering Techniques That Unlock Better AI Reasoning
Steering the AI: A Developer's Guide to Prompt Engineering If you've ever felt frustrated...

Dev.to · Debby McKinney
✍️ Prompt Engineering
5mo ago
Why Your AI's Context Window Problem Just Got Solved (And What It Means For Your Bottom Line)
If you're building AI products, you've hit this wall: your AI works brilliantly on short...

Dev.to · Mickaël Andrieu
✍️ Prompt Engineering
6mo ago
LLMs for Classification: One Example is All You Need
The first few-shot example delivers +55.9% gains. The next 49? Just +25% more. The...

Dev.to · MuzammilTalha
✍️ Prompt Engineering
6mo ago
Part 3 — When Prompt Engineering Becomes Configuration
Part of From Software Engineer to GenAI Engineer: A Practical Series for 2026 Prompt engineering is...

Dev.to · monna
✍️ Prompt Engineering
6mo ago
Advanced Prompt Engineering: What Actually Held Up in 2025
Over the past year, prompt engineering has quietly but fundamentally shifted. What changed wasn’t...

Dev.to · Boopathi
✍️ Prompt Engineering
6mo ago
Prompt Engineering From First Principles: The Mechanics They Don't Teach You part-1
This is my new series on Prompt Engineering and it's different from everything else out there. Most...

Dev.to · tbaveja
✍️ Prompt Engineering
6mo ago
GenAI Byte#2 - Prompt Like a Pro: A GenAI Byte for Everyone
Prompt Like a Pro: A GenAI Byte for Everyone Prompt engineering is quickly becoming one of...

Dev.to · Utkarsh Rastogi
✍️ Prompt Engineering
6mo ago
Day 4: Structured Outputs with LangChain Output Parsers
AI models love to chat, but apps need structured data. Today we're learning Output Parsers - your...

Dev.to · synthaicode
✍️ Prompt Engineering
6mo ago
We Can't Write the Perfect Prompt on the First Try — And That's the Point
Why dialogue beats one-shot prompting Introduction In my previous article, I...

Dev.to · Khushi Singla
✍️ Prompt Engineering
6mo ago
Building a Safe AI Database Assistant with Azure OpenAI, LangChain & Function Calling
From raw CSVs to a production-ready AI assistant that queries data safely — without hallucinating...

Dev.to · Mashraf Aiman
✍️ Prompt Engineering
6mo ago
Stanford Just Killed Prompt Engineering With 8 Words
Stanford Accidentally Killed Prompt Engineering With One Simple Trick And why...

Dev.to · Muhammad Rameez Yousuf
✍️ Prompt Engineering
6mo ago
What Is Prompt Engineering?
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to transform industries at an unprecedented pace, one skill...

Dev.to · Query Filter
✍️ Prompt Engineering
6mo ago
sql2
-- utils.sql -- Prevent SQL*Plus prompting for missing argument COLUMN arg1 NEW_VALUE arg1 SELECT...

Dev.to · Sumanta Swain
✍️ Prompt Engineering
7mo ago
Unpopular Opinion: The Death of Prompt Engineering (Enter DSPy)
The Problem with "Prompt Engineering" We need to be honest with ourselves. "Prompt Engineering" as...

Dev.to · Vinicius Fagundes
✍️ Prompt Engineering
7mo ago
Prompt Engineering Patterns: From Zero-Shot to Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
📚 Tech Acronyms Reference Quick reference for acronyms used in this article: API -...

Dev.to · Manikandan Mariappan
✍️ Prompt Engineering
7mo ago
Stop Prompting the Hard Way: How Mellea Gives You Supercharged AI Results
Introduction Prompting used to feel like magic. Sometimes the AI gave great results...
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