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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 · Marco Coelho
✍️ Prompt Engineering
⚡ AI Lesson
4d 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 · 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...

Dev.to · Jaipal Singh
✍️ Prompt Engineering
3mo ago
How to Fine-Tune AI Models: Techniques, Examples & Step-by-Step Guide
Learn how to fine-tune AI models with practical steps. Covers LoRA, full fine-tuning, dataset prep, and when fine-tuning beats RAG or prompt engineering. Real e

Dev.to · Alex Cloudstar
✍️ Prompt Engineering
3mo ago
Context Engineering in 2026: The Skill That Actually Makes AI Coding Work
The industry spent 2024 obsessing over prompt engineering. In 2026, the developers getting the best results from AI coding agents have quietly moved on to somet
Dev.to · klement Gunndu
✍️ Prompt Engineering
3mo ago
Context Engineering for AI Agents: 4 Patterns That Replace Prompt Hacking
Prompt engineering optimizes how you ask. Context engineering optimizes what information surrounds the ask. Here are 4 production patterns with working Python c

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...

Dev.to · Gan
✍️ Prompt Engineering
3mo ago
I built a pipeline orchestrator to improve code quality beyond single-shot prompts
Despite improvements in coding agents, single-pass prompting rarely produces production-quality...

Dev.to · Regaan
✍️ Prompt Engineering
3mo ago
How I Built an AI That Breeds Its Own Jailbreaks Using Genetic Algorithms
Static jailbreak lists are dead. Every time a model provider patches their safety filters, your...

Dev.to · Ima Claw
✍️ Prompt Engineering
3mo ago
How We're Solving Context Window Bloat in an AI Agent Skill Ecosystem
Your AI agent just got its 53rd skill installed. Image generation, video creation, social media...

Dev.to · The Machine Pulse
✍️ Prompt Engineering
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

Dev.to · Vaishali
✍️ Prompt Engineering
3mo ago
Chat Completions vs OpenAI Responses API: What Actually Changed
While learning about structured outputs, I noticed something strange. Almost every tutorial, course,...

Dev.to · Alessandro Pignati
✍️ Prompt Engineering
3mo ago
🔓 Beyond the Filter: Understanding Universal Jailbreaks in Agentic AI
In the world of LLMs, we’ve all seen the "classic" jailbreaks—those clever, human-written prompts...
Dev.to · klement Gunndu
✍️ Prompt Engineering
3mo ago
5 Python Scripts That Automate Your Freelance Workflow With AI
Freelancers spend 10+ hours a week on admin. These 5 Python scripts use OpenAI structured outputs to automate proposals, reports, invoices, emails, and scope do

Dev.to · Nebula
✍️ Prompt Engineering
3mo ago
Top 5 Structured Output Libraries for LLMs in 2026
Compare the top structured output libraries for LLMs -- Instructor, PydanticAI, Outlines, Guidance, and Zod. Side-by-side on features, approach, and best use.

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.

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...

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.

Dev.to · Trevor
✍️ Prompt Engineering
3mo ago
The gap in AI agent security nobody talks about: your .env is already in the context window
Your AI coding agent just read your .env file. Not on purpose. You asked it to fix a bug in your...

Dev.to · Brian Spann
✍️ Prompt Engineering
3mo ago
Reliable AI Outputs: Function Calling, JSON Mode, and Structured Generation in C#
LLMs are impressive text generators, but production applications need more than prose. You need...

Dev.to · AKSHAY P
✍️ Prompt Engineering
3mo ago
I Built a Prompt Engineering Suite for Developers — Here's Why Generic AI Prompts Are Killing Your Code Quality
I'll be honest with you — I was spending more time writing prompts than actually writing...

Dev.to · Jamie Gray
✍️ Prompt Engineering
3mo ago
What Building AI in Healthcare Taught Me About Engineering Discipline
When people talk about AI, the conversation usually goes straight to model quality, prompt design, or...

Dev.to · SurfaceDocs
✍️ Prompt Engineering
3mo ago
SurfaceDocs + OpenAI Agents SDK: Structured Output to Shareable Docs
Give your AI agents a proper output surface. Integrate the OpenAI Agents SDK with SurfaceDocs to turn structured agent output into shareable documents with zero

Dev.to · Brian Spann
✍️ Prompt Engineering
3mo ago
Power Your Azure AI Agents: Function Calling, Code Interpreter, and File Search
Power Your Azure AI Agents: Function Calling, Code Interpreter, and File Search In Part 1,...
Dev.to · klement Gunndu
✍️ Prompt Engineering
3mo ago
5 Prompt Engineering Patterns That Actually Work in Production
Most prompt guides teach chat tricks. These 5 patterns solve real production problems — with working Python code for each.

Dev.to · VelocityAI
✍️ Prompt Engineering
3mo 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 · Dean Sharon
✍️ Prompt Engineering
3mo 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...

Dev.to · v. Splicer
✍️ Prompt Engineering
3mo 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 · Kyle Anderson
✍️ Prompt Engineering
3mo ago
Why You Should Stop Prompting (And Start Scaffolding)
For the last year, developers have been obsessed with building the "perfect prompt." A 5,000-word...

Dev.to · Michael Kraft
✍️ Prompt Engineering
3mo ago
The Network Learns: When Training AI Becomes a Global Feedback System
Why prompt engineering is starting to look less like programming — and more like education at planetary scale.

Dev.to · Daniel Butler
✍️ Prompt Engineering
4mo ago
Did that actually help? Evaluating AI coding assistants with hard numbers
You are building a Skill, an MCP server, or a custom prompt strategy that is supposed to make an AI...

Dev.to · Manikandan Mariappan
✍️ Prompt Engineering
4mo ago
Prompt Engineering is Dead: The Rise of Autonomous AI Processes by 2026
Introduction Stop obsessing over your "System Prompt." Seriously. If your current AI...

Dev.to · Ed
✍️ Prompt Engineering
4mo ago
Your Prompts Don't Have Tests. That's a Problem.
Nobody knows when a prompt got worse. I mean that literally. A teammate tweaks a system prompt on...

Dev.to · albert nahas
✍️ Prompt Engineering
4mo ago
Structured Output with Claude: Extracting Data from Unstructured Text
Learn how to extract structured JSON data from unstructured text using Claude with effective prompting patterns. Start improving your data extraction now!

Dev.to · VelocityAI
✍️ Prompt Engineering
4mo ago
Pre-Prompting Technologies: The Ouija Board, the Oracle at Delphi, and the Long History of Consulting Non-Human Intelligences
You sit before a glowing screen. You formulate a question with care, choosing each word for maximum...

Dev.to · Brayan Arrieta
✍️ Prompt Engineering
4mo ago
Advanced Prompt Engineering: From Zero-Shot to Self-Consistency
Prompt engineering has moved beyond “ask a question, get an answer.” In real applications, we often...

Dev.to · Cloyou
✍️ Prompt Engineering
4mo ago
You Don’t Need a Bigger Model — You Need a Stable One
Every few months, a new model drops. More parameters. Longer context windows. Better...

Dev.to · Sachin m
✍️ Prompt Engineering
4mo ago
How to Implement Prompt Caching on Amazon Bedrock and Cut Inference Costs in Half
Add one line of code to stop reprocessing static system prompts on every API call. Real benchmarks across 3 Nova models — 49% savings with caching alone, 97% wh

Dev.to · Adaka Ankita
✍️ Prompt Engineering
4mo ago
Prompting Is Not Engineering: Building Reliable LLM Production Systems with Control Layers
Learn the 4 control layers that make LLM systems reliable in production—beyond 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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...
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