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Context Engineering Beats Prompt Engineering: How to Design Token Budgets That Actually Work
Stop optimizing words. Start optimizing what the model sees
Brian Gagne
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Brian Gagne
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.
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TechniquesRoleplay Reversal Prompting: Making the Model You
Roleplay reversal makes the AI the user. You become the machine. It’s one of the best ways to train, test, or simulate real-world usage, especially when you're prototyping LLM interfaces.
Brian Gagne
SecurityInverse Prompting: Reverse Engineering the Input
Inverse prompting is prompt forensics. It flips the script, working from outputs to plausible inputs. It’s essential for audit trails, meta-model training, and understanding how LLMs think in reverse.
Brian Gagne