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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 · Daniel Dong
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2w ago
I shipped a prompt library. Not because it's sexy. Because people were staring at a blank input box.
I shipped a prompt library. Not because it's sexy. Because people were staring at a blank input...

Dev.to · depa panjie purnama
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
Prompt Engineering for Manual Testers: How to Get Useful Output from AI Tools
You opened the AI assistant for the first time with a fair amount of hope. You typed "write test...

Dev.to · Efe şar
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
How Prompt Engineering Affects Which Brands AI Recommends
A practical guide to prompt engineering brands — what it means, why it matters, and how to act on it.

Dev.to · patil rushikesh
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo 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
2mo 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
2mo 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 · Sergio Azócar
✍️ Prompt Engineering
2mo ago
Context Architecture: el día que entendí que el repo entero es el contexto
Tu repo ya es el contexto de tus agentes, lo hayas diseñado a propósito o no Esa frase me...

Dev.to · QAJourney
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Prompt Engineering for QA Engineers: The Four-Element Framework That Actually Works
QA engineers who are frustrated with AI tools are not using the wrong tool. They are writing the...

Dev.to · Ferhat Atagün
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo 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
3mo 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
3mo 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
3mo 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 · Manish Ramavat
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
3mo ago
How to Choose the Right Prompt Engineering Pattern (And Why Simpler Is Usually Better)
I spent the past weekend running a head-to-head experiment: five popular prompt engineering patterns,...

Dev.to · Dextra Labs
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
3mo 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
3mo 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
4mo 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
4mo 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 · Luke Fryer
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4mo ago
How to Write Production System Prompts: A Complete Framework
A step-by-step framework for writing deterministic, version-controlled system prompts that survive production traffic. Covers constraint layering, output schema

Dev.to · Kathryn Grayson Nanz
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4mo ago
AI Crash Course: Prompt Engineering
AI models function more like they’re completing a transcript than holding a conversation. Providing plenty of context in our prompts helps them output the resul

Dev.to · John
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4mo ago
From a Calorie Counter Prompt to a Local-First Nutrition Tracker
One of the things I’ve been trying to do lately is take project prompts seriously enough to turn them...

Dev.to · Linas Valiukas
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4mo 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
4mo 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
5mo 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 · ThomasP
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
5mo ago
The prompt engineering that didn't work (and what did)
In the first article of this series, I explained why finding a product's manufacturing country from...

Dev.to · The Machine Pulse
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
5mo 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 · VelocityAI
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
5mo 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 · v. Splicer
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
5mo 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 · Dr Hernani Costa
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
7mo 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
⚡ AI Lesson
7mo 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 · MuzammilTalha
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
7mo 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
⚡ AI Lesson
7mo 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 · tbaveja
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
8mo 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
⚡ AI Lesson
8mo 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
⚡ AI Lesson
8mo 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
⚡ AI Lesson
8mo 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
⚡ AI Lesson
8mo 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
⚡ AI Lesson
8mo 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
⚡ AI Lesson
8mo ago
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-- utils.sql -- Prevent SQL*Plus prompting for missing argument COLUMN arg1 NEW_VALUE arg1 SELECT...

Dev.to · Sumanta Swain
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
8mo 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
⚡ AI Lesson
8mo 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
⚡ AI Lesson
8mo 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...

Dev.to · Nicanor Korir
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
8mo ago
Shamba-MedCare Prompt Engineering
Building Shamba-MedCare - an AI-powered plant disease diagnosis tool for farmers. The problem, the failed approaches, and what finally worked.

Dev.to · Hoang Manh Cam
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
8mo ago
The Art & Science of AI Prompting: How to Talk to Machines and Get What You Want
AI prompting has evolved from a curiosity into a professional superpower. As AI systems become more...

Dev.to · Jaideep Parashar
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
9mo ago
What Prompt Engineers Should Learn From Designers & Writers
If you want to become truly world-class at prompting, don’t study AI. Study designers. Study...

Dev.to · Sumeet Ghimire
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
9mo ago
I built Laravel AI Orchestrator a package that makes it easy to orchestrate AI calls across multiple providers, with automatic fallbacks, structured output, and now, contextual memory #laravel
https://github.com/sumeetghimire/Laravel-AI-Orchestrator
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Dev.to · Paperium
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
9mo ago
Temporal Prompting Matters: Rethinking Referring Video Object Segmentation
How Smart Prompts Teach Computers to Find What You’re Talking About in Videos Ever...

Dev.to · Brad Hankee
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
9mo ago
Function Calling in LangChain: Turning Chatbots into Enterprise Copilots
Understanding Function Calling and Tool Calling in LangChain If you’ve been diving into...

Dev.to · Jaideep Parashar
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
1y ago
Prompt engineering is a mindset, a way of thinking that allows you to translate human needs into clear instructions AI can understand. Even if you don’t code, you can think like a prompt engineer and unlock 10x better results with AI. Here’s how.
How to Think Like a Prompt Engineer (Even Without Coding) ...
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