Practical Workflow: Ship Better Prompts Faster

1. Start with the output. Define what "correct" looks like before writing a single word of the prompt. 2. Write the simplest prompt that could work. One sentence role, task, format. Test it. 3. Add constraints only when they fix observed failures. Every line of instruction is a tax on reliability. 4. Version everything. Prompt in a file, file in git. Not in a UI, not in a config variable with no history. 5. Write evals alongside prompts. Not after. Not "later." 6. Profile costs. Tokens cost money and add latency. Measure both. Use caching where the system supports it. 7. Know when to stop prompting. If you're on the 15th revision and still failing on 20% of cases, consider fine-tuning, a different model, or rethinking the task decomposition. ---

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