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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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I shipped a prompt library. Not because it's sexy. Because people were staring at a blank input box.
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...
Prompt Engineering for Manual Testers: How to Get Useful Output from AI Tools
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...
How Prompt Engineering Affects Which Brands AI Recommends
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.
Prompt Engineering: The Skill That Makes AI Work Better
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...
5 prompt engineering techniques to get the best out of a legacy project
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...
What Prime Day Taught Me About Prompt Engineering
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...
Context Architecture: el día que entendí que el repo entero es el contexto
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...
Prompt Engineering for QA Engineers: The Four-Element Framework That Actually Works
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...
Your prompt isn't better. You just remember it being better.
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.
Prompt Engineering Hygiene: The Invisible Layer Under Your Agent Logic
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.
Prompt Diff Testing: A/B Your Prompts Without Changing the Model
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.
The missing layer in prompt engineering: thinking quality
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...
How to Choose the Right Prompt Engineering Pattern (And Why Simpler Is Usually Better)
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,...
Prompt Engineering Is a Real Skill, Here's the Enterprise Playbook (Not Just 'Be Specific')
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,...
Tool-Calling Prompts That Don't Blow Up on the Five Edge Cases
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.
Prompt Engineering at Scale: When It Becomes Software Engineering
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...
Your prompt pack isn't broken. Your prompt engineering is.
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
How to Write Production System Prompts: A Complete Framework
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
AI Crash Course: Prompt Engineering
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
From a Calorie Counter Prompt to a Local-First Nutrition Tracker
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...
The prompt is the product
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...
Prompt Unit Tests: 3 Bash Scripts That Catch Regressions Before Deploy
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...
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 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...
The prompt engineering that didn't work (and what did)
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...
Prompt Engineering Is Dead. Prompt Architecture Is What Matters.
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
Prompt Engineering as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Restructuring Thoughts by Restructuring Queries to Self
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?...
What I Unlearned About Prompt Engineering After Actually Shipping With It
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...
Anthropic's Free Prompt Engineering Course for Developers
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...
The Complete Guide to Prompt Engineering for Angular Developers
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...
Part 3 — When Prompt Engineering Becomes Configuration
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...
Advanced Prompt Engineering: What Actually Held Up in 2025
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...
GenAI Byte#2 - Prompt Like a Pro: A GenAI Byte for Everyone
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...
Day 4: Structured Outputs with LangChain Output Parsers
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...
We Can't Write the Perfect Prompt on the First Try — And That's the Point
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...
Building a Safe AI Database Assistant with Azure OpenAI, LangChain & Function Calling
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...
Stanford Just Killed Prompt Engineering With 8 Words
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...
What Is Prompt Engineering?
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...
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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...
Unpopular Opinion: The Death of Prompt Engineering (Enter DSPy)
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...
Prompt Engineering Patterns: From Zero-Shot to Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
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 -...
Stop Prompting the Hard Way: How Mellea Gives You Supercharged AI Results
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...
Shamba-MedCare Prompt Engineering
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.
The Art & Science of AI Prompting: How to Talk to Machines and Get What You Want
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...
What Prompt Engineers Should Learn From Designers & Writers
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...
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
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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Temporal Prompting Matters: Rethinking Referring Video Object Segmentation
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...
Function Calling in LangChain: Turning Chatbots into Enterprise Copilots
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...
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.
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) ...