The Accordion Pattern: Why I stopped writing one fat LLM prompt

📰 Dev.to · Hideki Mori

Learn to improve LLM prompt engineering with the Accordion Pattern, a method to break down complex prompts into smaller, manageable parts

intermediate Published 29 Apr 2026
Action Steps
  1. Break down complex prompts into smaller sub-prompts using the Accordion Pattern
  2. Identify the key information to be extracted from the document
  3. Create a hierarchical structure for the sub-prompts
  4. Test and refine the Accordion Pattern prompts for better results
  5. Compare the performance of the Accordion Pattern with traditional one-fat-prompt approaches
Who Needs to Know This

NLP engineers and data scientists can benefit from this technique to improve the accuracy and efficiency of their LLM-based projects

Key Insight

💡 The Accordion Pattern can help improve LLM prompt engineering by breaking down complex prompts into smaller, more manageable parts

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