Prompt Engineering Mastery: From Basics to Chain-of-Thought

Prompting is a Skill

Writing prompts that reliably produce the right output is an engineering discipline.

The Anatomy of a Great Prompt

[ROLE] You are an expert TypeScript developer.
[CONTEXT] The user is refactoring a legacy Express codebase.
[TASK] Review the following function and suggest improvements.
[CONSTRAINTS] Keep changes minimal.
[FORMAT] Return a numbered list of suggestions, then the improved code.

Chain-of-Thought Prompting

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const prompt = `
Solve this step by step:
1. What are the key constraints?
2. What approaches could work?
3. Which is best and why?
4. Show the solution.
`;

Conclusion

Prompt engineering is part art, part science. Iterate, test, and measure.