Krisztian Eyssen, Krisztian Eyssen The Anatomy of a Working Prompt Five building blocks, and most bad answers happen because one of them is missing. We walk through all five on a real task, in a bad and a good version. Beginner Everyone How-To Prompting Sep 11, 2026
Krisztian Eyssen, Krisztian Eyssen Persona Prompting: When a Role Helps and When It Doesn't "Act as an experienced lawyer" does not make a model smarter. It does do something real, though — and if you know what, you will use it in the right place. Beginner Office worker How-To Prompting Sep 11, 2026
Krisztian Eyssen, Krisztian Eyssen Few-Shot: Show It, Don't Explain It Some things you cannot describe in three paragraphs but can convey in two examples. In exchange, an example also teaches things you did not intend — that is what to watch for. Beginner Office worker How-To Prompting Sep 11, 2026
Krisztian Eyssen, Krisztian Eyssen Chain-of-Thought: When Asking for the Steps Still Pays "Think step by step" was the best trick going for years. On most models today it is redundant, and in places it actively hurts. Here is what survived. Intermediate Office worker How-To Prompting Sep 11, 2026
Krisztian Eyssen, Krisztian Eyssen Structured Output: Asking for a Table, JSON or a List A good answer and a usable answer are not the same thing. There are three levels, and most people stop at the first — even though the second is well within reach. Intermediate Office worker How-To Prompting Sep 11, 2026
Krisztian Eyssen, Krisztian Eyssen Constraints That Stick "Don't include X" surprisingly often produces exactly X. Not out of spite — it follows from the mechanics. One rewriting rule makes most prohibitions enforceable. Intermediate Office worker How-To Prompting Sep 11, 2026
Krisztian Eyssen, Krisztian Eyssen Delimiters and Sections: Keeping Long Prompts in Order As soon as a prompt runs longer than ten lines, a question arises that the model also has to be able to answer: where does the instruction end and the data begin? Intermediate Office worker How-To Prompting Sep 11, 2026
Krisztian Eyssen, Krisztian Eyssen Meta-Prompting: Let the AI Write the Prompt If you cannot articulate what you want, don't articulate it. Turn the situation around and have it interview you — with three copyable recipes. Intermediate Office worker Recipe Prompting Sep 11, 2026
Krisztian Eyssen, Krisztian Eyssen A Bad Answer Came Back: Repair It Instead of Starting Over The instinct is to rephrase the question and send it again. That gives a worse result than three well-chosen sentences — and takes longer too. Beginner Everyone Troubleshooting Prompting Sep 11, 2026
Krisztian Eyssen, Krisztian Eyssen Processing Long Documents in Chunks A model today will swallow a thick novel whole, and still lose the point in a 200-page file. Chunking is not about size, it is about attention. Intermediate Office worker Recipe Prompting Sep 11, 2026
Krisztian Eyssen, Krisztian Eyssen Context Engineering: What Replaced Prompt Engineering Half of that title is true. Prompting did not die — it just turned out that phrasing the question is the smaller half of the work that makes an AI system function. Advanced Everyone Explainer Prompting Sep 11, 2026
Krisztian Eyssen, Krisztian Eyssen A Prompt Library for Yourself and Your Team A prompt that works is an asset — it is just that in most companies nobody knows where it is. A simple system that needs no new software. Intermediate Business owner How-To Prompting Sep 11, 2026
