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Prompt Engineering Best Practices for Production Applications
Most prompts that work in a playground break in production. Not because the model changed — because your inputs did.
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Most prompts that work in a playground break in production. Not because the model changed — because your inputs did.
LLM APIs look like REST APIs but don't behave like them. If you've built integrations with Stripe or GitHub's API, you know the pattern: send a request, get structured data back, handle errors. LLM APIs follow that same HTTP shape, but they add a handful of concepts that don't exist in typical API work. Skip past them and you'll hit confusing bugs and unexpected bills.