Treat prompts as first-class software artifacts — with versioning, CI/CD, and the same rigor you would apply to any production code.
Five passes over the same idea, each from a different angle. Do them in order, or jump to whichever you need.
Prompt engineering matured from "write clever sentences" to a disciplined engineering sub-field. System prompts are contracts. Few-shot examples are tests. Prompt registries prevent drift. Chain-of-thought elicits latent capability without any weight updates. This topic covers the full spectrum: zero-shot through advanced techniques like Tree-of-Thought and self-consistency.
