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CTO of Kief Studio. 20+ years technology consulting. Cisco Certified Ethical Hacker, UPenn AI for Business, Perplexity AI Business Fellow. Builds the tools Qurtoo teaches you to use.
Meta's semi-formal reasoning template forces premises, traced paths, and a derived conclusion, so you can see exactly where the model is bluffing.
Brian Gagne
The 'response bloat' tax quietly doubles your token bill. Here's the prompt pattern that keeps raw tool payloads out of the model's working memory.
Brian Gagne
You can't command next-token prediction into honesty, but you can engineer the conditions where it stops guessing.
Brian Gagne
The four standing prompts behind "loop engineering" (find work, do work, verify, remember), with copy-paste scaffolds and the guardrails that keep them from running rogue.
Brian Gagne
Diffusion models like Inception's new Mercury 2 refine the whole answer in parallel, so scaffold the output shape instead of nudging a linear reasoning chain.
Brian Gagne
BUILD 2026 made code-as-action a first-class pattern. Here's how to rewrite your tool-use prompts from "pick a tool" to "write code that calls the tools" and cut tokens 30-50%.
Brian Gagne
Google's migration guide quietly killed the majority-vote trick you've leaned on for years. Here's what replaces it.
Brian Gagne
Microsoft's new Handoff orchestration pattern proves the routing decision isn't architecture, it's a prompt. Here's how to write it so your agents don't deadlock or drop context.
Brian Gagne
The NoWait technique cuts chain-of-thought length 27-51% with zero accuracy loss. Here's how to apply it in Claude, GPT, and Gemini
Brian Gagne
Speculative planning turns dead tool-call wait time into planning cycles that cut agent task completion time
Brian Gagne
New research shows that picking in-context examples by embedding similarity beats static few-shot, with gains like +7.3% F1 on biomedical NER. Here's how to build it.
Brian Gagne
The prompting discipline for persistent background agents is fundamentally different from chat. Here's the pattern that keeps autonomous actions safe and useful.
Brian Gagne