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Prompt Engineering

Craft effective prompts — chain-of-thought, few-shot, RAG, system prompts and beyond

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Apply CoT, zero-shot, and few-shot patterns
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Write production system prompts
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Prompt Engineering: The Skill That Makes AI Work Better
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...
5 prompt engineering techniques to get the best out of a legacy project
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...
What Prime Day Taught Me About Prompt Engineering
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...
Your prompt isn't better. You just remember it being better.
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.
Prompt Engineering Hygiene: The Invisible Layer Under Your Agent Logic
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.
Prompt Diff Testing: A/B Your Prompts Without Changing the Model
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.
The missing layer in prompt engineering: thinking quality
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...
Prompt Engineering Is a Real Skill, Here's the Enterprise Playbook (Not Just 'Be Specific')
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,...
Tool-Calling Prompts That Don't Blow Up on the Five Edge Cases
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.
Prompt Engineering at Scale: When It Becomes Software Engineering
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...
Your prompt pack isn't broken. Your prompt engineering is.
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
The prompt is the product
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...
Prompt Unit Tests: 3 Bash Scripts That Catch Regressions Before Deploy
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...
We need to stop treating Prompt Engineering like "dark magic" and start treating it like software testing.
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...
Beyond the Hype: A Developer's Guide to Building with AI, Not Just Prompting It
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...
Prompt Engineering Is Dead. Prompt Architecture Is What Matters.
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
Context Engineering for AI Agents: A Practical Guide
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.
What Changed When I Started Prompting AI Properly
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...
5,800 Lines of Code From Zero: How I Bootstrapped a Full Pipeline With AI in One Day
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.
Prompt Engineering as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Restructuring Thoughts by Restructuring Queries to Self
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?...
How I strip 90% of code before feeding it to my coding agent
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...
What I Unlearned About Prompt Engineering After Actually Shipping With It
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...
Technical Deep Dive: Veo 3.1 JSON Prompt Engineering
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...
Implementing A/B Testing for Prompts in LangChain
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...
Laravel AI SDK: What It Changes, Why It Matters, and Should You Use It?
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.
OpenAI Just Got "Swarmed": Kimi k2.5 and the Death of the Single Agent
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...
AWS Bedrock vs. SageMaker: Choosing the Right GenAI Stack in 2026
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...
Multimodal Prompting: The Next Frontier-How to Juggle Text, Images, and Files in a Single Request
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...
Prompt Engineering: The Art of Talking to Robots
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...
Anthropic's Free Prompt Engineering Course for Developers
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...
The Complete Guide to Prompt Engineering for Angular Developers
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...
Prompt Engineering a Barista: How SQLatte's Personality Transforms SQL into Conversations
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: # ❌...
3 Prompt Engineering Techniques That Unlock Better AI Reasoning
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...
Why Your AI's Context Window Problem Just Got Solved (And What It Means For Your Bottom Line)
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...
LLMs for Classification: One Example is All You Need
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...
Part 3 — When Prompt Engineering Becomes Configuration
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...
Advanced Prompt Engineering: What Actually Held Up in 2025
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...
Prompt Engineering From First Principles: The Mechanics They Don't Teach You part-1
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...
GenAI Byte#2 - Prompt Like a Pro: A GenAI Byte for Everyone
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...
Day 4: Structured Outputs with LangChain Output Parsers
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...
We Can't Write the Perfect Prompt on the First Try — And That's the Point
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...
Building a Safe AI Database Assistant with Azure OpenAI, LangChain & Function Calling
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...
Stanford Just Killed Prompt Engineering With 8 Words
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...
What Is Prompt Engineering?
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...
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Dev.to · Query Filter ✍️ Prompt Engineering 6mo ago
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-- utils.sql -- Prevent SQL*Plus prompting for missing argument COLUMN arg1 NEW_VALUE arg1 SELECT...
Unpopular Opinion: The Death of Prompt Engineering (Enter DSPy)
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...
Prompt Engineering Patterns: From Zero-Shot to Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
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 -...
Stop Prompting the Hard Way: How Mellea Gives You Supercharged AI Results
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...