Prompt guide
Writing
Read the guidePrompting knowledge was scattered and in no order, so I set out to give it one a reader could follow.
- Client
- Personal, ongoing
- Discipline
- Writing
- Scope
- Research
technical writing
applied examples - Year
- Ongoing
The knowledge exists.
The path does not.
Challenge
Prompting knowledge is scattered across cookbooks, papers and threads. Each piece answers its own question, so anyone learning the craft has to work out alone what comes first and how the parts connect.
Approach
I decided the thing worth adding was order, not more material, since another pile of links would only repeat the scatter. So I shaped the guide as one path, from the core techniques to applied examples.
I researched the published cookbooks and set what I found into five sections in sequence: zero-shot, few-shot, chain of thought, applied examples and evaluation. I wrote it in a public repository, versioned in the open, so each section can be revised as it matures.
Shared in progress,
growing with practice.
Result
The guide is in development and already shared in public. Rather than a finished book that dates, it is a working reference that grows as the practice does.
Contents
Zero-shot, few-shot, chain of thought, applied examples and evaluation.
