Prompt Engineering Best Practices for 2026
System prompts, few-shot examples, chain-of-thought, and structured output — the patterns that turn unreliable LLM experiments into production-ready features.
This week we're going deep on the AI engineering side: prompt engineering patterns that ship reliable features, the fine-tuning decision framework, and how to cut LLM costs by 80% without sacrificing quality.
System prompts, few-shot examples, chain-of-thought, and structured output — the patterns that turn unreliable LLM experiments into production-ready features.
90% of teams that jump to fine-tuning should have stuck with prompt engineering. Here's the decision framework, data requirements, and hybrid approaches that work.
Model routing, semantic caching, prompt compression, and batch processing — a practical playbook for cutting LLM costs from $9K/month to $500 without losing quality.
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