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Prompt Decomposition: Break One Complex Prompt Into Five Simple Ones and Get Better Results for Less Money
The cost and quality math behind splitting monolithic prompts into chains
Brian Gagne
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TechniquesPersona Stacking: Layer Multiple Roles in One System Prompt for Expert-Level Output
Why 'You are a senior engineer who also reviews for security' beats single-role prompts
Brian Gagne
TechniquesFew-Shot Prompting Is Dead Weight in 2026: When Zero-Shot With Constraints Outperforms Examples
The counterintuitive cases where removing examples improves output quality
Brian Gagne
TechniquesStructured Output Prompting: Force Any LLM to Return Valid JSON Every Time
The schema-first prompting pattern that eliminates parsing failures
Brian Gagne