Prompt Recipes
Step-Back Prompting: 5 Recipes That Ship (2026)
Step-back prompting in 2026: five copy-paste recipes that make an LLM state the governing principle before it answers, plus a gate for when to skip it.
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Prompt Delimiters: 6 Recipes That Ship (2026)
Six copy-paste recipes for fencing prompts with delimiters in 2026: which delimiter per job, why it works, and the failure mode each one prevents.
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LLM Temperature Settings: 6 Recipes That Ship (2026)
Six copy-paste LLM temperature and top_p recipes for 2026: the exact setting per task type, why it works, and the failure mode it prevents.
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Least-to-Most Prompting: 6 Recipes That Ship (2026)
Least-to-most prompting for LLMs in 2026: six copy-paste recipes that decompose a hard problem into ordered subproblems and feed each answer forward, with the receipt, the reasoning, and the failure mode for each.
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System Prompt vs User Prompt: The Placement Rules That Ship (2026)
System prompt vs user prompt in 2026: five copy-paste placement recipes with the same instruction shown in both lanes, plus the injection failure mode that makes lane choice a security decision.
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Prompt Compression: Recipes That Ship (2026)
Six copy-paste prompt compression moves for 2026 with real before and after token counts. Cut manners, redundancy, and agent history. No library required.
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Few-Shot Prompting Examples That Ship (2026)
Eight copy-paste few-shot prompting examples that ship: classification, JSON extraction, tone, refusal, edge cases, message-history shots, and dynamic example selection.
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ReAct Prompting: 6 Copy-Paste Recipes That Ship (2026)
ReAct prompting interleaves reasoning and tool calls: Thought, Action, Observation, repeat, until the model has enough to answer. It is how a plain prompt becomes an agent. Six copy-paste ReAct recipes below, each with the failure mode that bites first. Tested July 2026.
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Zero-Shot Prompting: 5 Recipes That Ship
Zero-shot prompting is the right default for most tasks in 2026. Five recipes that make instruction-only prompts reliable, plus the exact point to add one example.
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The 2026 Prompt Engineering Cheat Sheet (For People Who Ship)
A terse, production-first prompt engineering cheat sheet for 2026: fifteen patterns, each with a one-line rule, its failure mode, and a link to the full recipe.
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Role Prompting: 5 Recipes That Ship (2026)
Five paste-ready role prompting recipes for 2026: domain expert, audience, format contract, adversary, and voice, each with its failure mode.
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Chain of Thought Prompting: 6 Examples That Ship (2026)
Six paste-ready chain of thought prompting examples for 2026, each with its failure mode, plus when reasoning out loud makes the answer worse.
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