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Three people in costume posing on a busy city street.

1. Give It a Role and a Reason

We reviewed the same handbook paragraph twice. Without a role: 134 words of writing advice. With one line naming the job: 235 words about the ambiguities that cause disputes.

Sep 7, 20267 min

Neatly organized documents divided by separators, seen from above.

Tutorial19 hours ago

2. Separating Your Instructions From Your Material

We put a prompt injection inside customer tickets and ran it with and without tags. Both ignored it. Here is why we still tag everything, and it is not the reason you think.

Sep 7, 20267 min

A tape measure and rulers laid out together.

Tutorial19 hours ago

3. Controlling the Shape of What Comes Out

We asked for one set of numbers in three formats. The table came back with four rows when we only supplied three facts, and the fourth was a metric it derived itself.

Sep 7, 20267 min

A young man concentrating over a chess board indoors.

Tutorial19 hours ago

4. Making It Think Before It Answers

We ran two trap problems while actively discouraging working out loud. It got both right. So what is step by step actually buying you? Not accuracy.

Sep 7, 20267 min

A young architect working on a blueprint at a desk.

Tutorial19 hours ago

5. Building a Prompt From Scratch

We built one prompt from an empty box to a saved template. The improvement did not come from a technique. It came from 90 seconds answering one question.

Sep 7, 20267 min

Close-up of hands passing a relay baton.

Tutorial19 hours ago

6. When One Prompt Is Not Enough

Same notes, same model. The one shot email never mentioned the competitor. Splitting it into analyze-then-write pulled the deadline forward and addressed the risk directly.

Sep 7, 20267 min

A man examining a large book in an archive.

Tutorial19 hours ago

7. Documents Too Long to Read

We hid one fact at line 9, line 131 and line 251 of a 260 line document. It found all three, with correct line numbers. The real limits are somewhere else entirely.

Sep 7, 20267 min

Detailed view of a vintage clockwork mechanism.

Tutorial19 hours ago

8. How It Actually Works, and Why It Fails

Four ideas, no mathematics, each one explaining a failure we hit while writing this course. Including why we will not call it autocomplete.

Sep 7, 20267 min

A close-up of transparent laboratory glassware.

Tutorial19 hours ago

9. Telling a Real Improvement From Noise

We ran one prompt five times without changing a character. Output ranged from 80 to 100 words. If you compare one run to one run, you measured the dice.

Sep 7, 20267 min