Articles
How to Prompt OpenAI's GPT Models
A practical, docs-grounded guide to prompting GPT-5.x: role hierarchy, structured outputs, tool calling, and reasoning-model differences.
How to Prompt Claude (Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku)
A practical, docs-grounded guide to prompting Claude Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku — XML tags, thinking, caching, and tool use.
How to Prompt the Top AI Models
Claude, GPT, Gemini, and open/challenger models each reward different prompting. A side-by-side comparison of setup, reasoning, tools, and caching.
How to Optimize AI Agent Cost and Latency
Where agent cost and latency actually come from, the concrete levers to pull, and how to measure before you optimize the wrong thing.
Memory for AI Agents
How AI agents remember beyond the context window: working memory, long-term stores, episodic vs semantic memory, and the pitfalls.
The Agentic Loop, Explained
How the model-decides, harness-executes, context-accumulates cycle actually works, where it breaks, and how to bound it in production.
Guardrails and Safety for AI Agents
Why agents need more than a chatbot's safety filter, and how to layer input validation, scoping, approval, and sandboxing.
How to Write Your First Agent Skill
A practical, accurate walkthrough of Agent Skills: the SKILL.md format, why the description is the trigger, and how to test one before you ship it.
How to Evaluate and Test Your Prompts
A practical guide to building prompt test sets, choosing grading methods, gating CI, and catching regressions when you swap models.
Prompt Templates and Variables
Stop copy-pasting prompts. Learn how to template instructions, typed variable slots, and untrusted-data sections you can version, test, and secure.