Author
CTO, Kief Studio
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.
Karpathy was right: the highest-leverage skill in 2026 isn't writing better prompts, it's deciding what goes into the context window and what stays out
Brian Gagne
Anthropic shipped the grading loop, and the rubric is now the hardest prompt you'll write
Brian Gagne
Embedding hesitation cues like 'wait, let me verify' into your prompts activates built-in self-correction that chain-of-thought never could
Brian Gagne
Google ADK and the A2A protocol turned your agent's metadata into the most important prompt you're not optimizing
Brian Gagne
Each frontier model parses structure differently: XML, JSON, or markdown. Match the format, and output quality jumps measurably.
Brian Gagne
Anthropic's Managed Agents, Google ADK, and Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0 all abstract away the runtime, and your prompts need to catch up
Brian Gagne
OpenAI's new prompting guide kills personas, step-by-step, and emotional primers. Here's the minimal structure that actually works on reasoning models
Brian Gagne
Turn contract PDFs and compliance docs into structured risk assessments with three prompts
Brian Gagne
The new GitHub CLI skill system lets you write one agent instruction set that runs everywhere. Here's how to prompt it right
Brian Gagne
Defensive system prompts and validation chains for the attack class that hits harder the smarter your model is
Brian Gagne
Stop burning your million-token window on grep output. Prompt patterns that decide what gets delegated.
Brian Gagne
Stop writing 'think step by step'. Start setting token budgets that match the task.
Brian Gagne