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Paper·July 30, 2026

Prompting techniques that actually work (and the mistakes that quietly ruin them)

A field guide to zero-shot, few-shot, chain-of-thought, and structured prompting, plus the common mistakes that silently degrade output quality.

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Tip·July 22, 2026

Three checks before you fine-tune an LLM

A short tip list for teams deciding whether fine-tuning is the right move, or whether retrieval and better prompts come first.

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Thought·July 18, 2026

AI can build a tool. It cannot own the blast radius.

Why prompt-built software still needs engineers who think about failure modes, scale, and accountability.

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Paper·July 10, 2026

From notebook to production: what usually breaks

A practical checklist for taking ML experiments into systems that survive real traffic, cost pressure, and messy data.

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