The original title is "Building Production Prompts That Actually Work (And Why Most Fail)"

Short summary

Production prompts fail because they're treated like documentation—verbose and generic—instead of instructions to a coworker. Effective prompts define audience, output format, detail level, and failure behavior explicitly. Treat prompts like code: version them, test with real data, document constraints, and monitor failures. Platform-specific tricks like thinking tags and examples blocks add further reliability.

• •Production prompts need explicit constraints: audience, format, detail level, failure behavior
• •Test prompts with real data, not toy examples—edge cases reveal where they break
• •Version and document prompts like code: prompts/v1.0.txt, test_cases.json, monitor failures

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