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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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Build multi-step prompt chains
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Write production system prompts
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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...
I Built an Open-Source Immune System for LLMs That Detects Jailbreaks in 3ms — Here's What I Found Auditing Lakera Guard
Dev.to · Dmitry Labintcev ✍️ Prompt Engineering 4mo ago
I Built an Open-Source Immune System for LLMs That Detects Jailbreaks in 3ms — Here's What I Found Auditing Lakera Guard
description: "How a swarm of tiny ML models (<8K parameters total) outperforms BERT at jailbreak...
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 Tutorial: Build a Smart Assistant in 30 Minutes
Dev.to · Hafiz ✍️ Prompt Engineering 4mo ago
Laravel AI SDK Tutorial: Build a Smart Assistant in 30 Minutes
Laravel AI SDK tutorial with step-by-step code examples. Build a document analyzer agent with structured output, streaming, and testing in 30 minutes.
🔙 STEP-BACK Prompting Technique
Dev.to · Vignesh Ambalam Suresh ✍️ Prompt Engineering 4mo ago
🔙 STEP-BACK Prompting Technique
Step-back prompting is a technique developed by Google DeepMind where instead of directly tackling a...
My AI agent pushed directly to main. The system prompt said don't.
Dev.to · Arnold Cartagena ✍️ Prompt Engineering 4mo ago
My AI agent pushed directly to main. The system prompt said don't.
I was demoing my AI agent to colleagues. The agent had access to Git tooling, and my carefully...
Laravel AI SDK: What It Changes, Why It Matters, and Should You Use It?
Dev.to · Hafiz ✍️ Prompt Engineering 4mo 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 4mo 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 4mo 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 4mo 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 5mo 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 6mo 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 6mo 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...
Shamba-MedCare Prompt Engineering
Dev.to · Nicanor Korir ✍️ Prompt Engineering 7mo 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 7mo 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 7mo 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 7mo 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
...
Temporal Prompting Matters: Rethinking Referring Video Object Segmentation
Dev.to · Paperium ✍️ Prompt Engineering 8mo 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 8mo ago
Function Calling in LangChain: Turning Chatbots into Enterprise Copilots
Understanding Function Calling and Tool Calling in LangChain If you’ve been diving into...
Responsible use of AI for developers: Ethics and prompting with purpose
Dev.to · Michelle Duke ✍️ Prompt Engineering 8mo ago
Responsible use of AI for developers: Ethics and prompting with purpose
As developers, we’re shaping how AI fits into our workflows. This carries a lot of responsibility....
Unlocking the Power of AI: What is Prompt Engineering?
Dev.to · SabariNextGen ✍️ Prompt Engineering 9mo ago
Unlocking the Power of AI: What is Prompt Engineering?
Unlocking the Power of AI: What is Prompt Engineering? As artificial intelligence (AI)...
The Evolution of AI Memory: From Context Windows to True Long-Term Memory
Dev.to · Aun Raza ✍️ Prompt Engineering 9mo ago
The Evolution of AI Memory: From Context Windows to True Long-Term Memory
The Evolution of AI Memory: From Context Windows to True Long-Term Memory Artificial...
Prompt Engineering Made Simple: Real-World Techniques, Mistakes to Avoid, and Hands-On for Everyone
Dev.to · Raunak ALI ✍️ Prompt Engineering 9mo ago
Prompt Engineering Made Simple: Real-World Techniques, Mistakes to Avoid, and Hands-On for Everyone
Prompt Engineering Made Simple: Real-World Techniques, Mistakes to Avoid, and Hands-On for...
GenAI Foundations – Chapter 2: Prompt Engineering in Action – Unlocking Better AI Responses
Dev.to · Romina Elena Mendez Escobar ✍️ Prompt Engineering 9mo ago
GenAI Foundations – Chapter 2: Prompt Engineering in Action – Unlocking Better AI Responses
👉 “Techniques to boost reasoning, accuracy, and interaction” Introduction As...
Prompt engineering isn’t optional. It’s the new literacy that will define who thrives and who struggles.
Dev.to · Jaideep Parashar ✍️ Prompt Engineering 9mo ago
Prompt engineering isn’t optional. It’s the new literacy that will define who thrives and who struggles.
Why Prompt Engineering is the New Literacy Jaideep...
Why Prompt Engineering is the New Literacy
Dev.to · Jaideep Parashar ✍️ Prompt Engineering 9mo ago
Why Prompt Engineering is the New Literacy
For centuries, literacy has meant reading and writing. In the 21st century, we added digital literacy...
The Four Point framework, which I use in every AI project I run, whether it’s coding, content, business strategy, or learning, and I wish every CEO would use. It’s not just theory; this is the backbone behind my books, projects, and success.
Dev.to · Jaideep Parashar ✍️ Prompt Engineering 9mo ago
The Four Point framework, which I use in every AI project I run, whether it’s coding, content, business strategy, or learning, and I wish every CEO would use. It’s not just theory; this is the backbone behind my books, projects, and success.
The Prompt Engineering Framework Every CEO Should USE ...
The Prompt Engineering Framework Every CEO Should USE
Dev.to · Jaideep Parashar ✍️ Prompt Engineering 9mo ago
The Prompt Engineering Framework Every CEO Should USE
After publishing 40+ AI books, running the ReThynk AI Lab, and helping businesses adopt AI, I’ve...
💻The HTML of AI: Why Prompting Isn't Enough!
Dev.to · marcosomma ✍️ Prompt Engineering 10mo ago
💻The HTML of AI: Why Prompting Isn't Enough!
🚀 In the late 90s I felt like a wizard. I had discovered HTML. I could open Notepad, type a few...
Those who have a heart for coding should learn AI by heart. AI mastery isn’t about knowing prompting; it's about learning why to write a prompt. Only those who have a heart for coding and AI will lead the developers.
Dev.to · Jaideep Parashar ✍️ Prompt Engineering 10mo ago
Those who have a heart for coding should learn AI by heart. AI mastery isn’t about knowing prompting; it's about learning why to write a prompt. Only those who have a heart for coding and AI will lead the developers.
The 1% Rule of AI Mastery Jaideep Parashar ・ Aug 30 ...
Mastering Prompt Design for Smarter AI Assistants in 2025
Dev.to · Abdul Rehman Khan ✍️ Prompt Engineering 10mo ago
Mastering Prompt Design for Smarter AI Assistants in 2025
Discover how developers can improve AI assistant accuracy in 2025 through advanced prompt design, real-world applications, and common mistakes to avoid.