Prompt engineering helps you write better prompts—but it doesn’t help you change them safely. This article explores a common production failure where a simple variable rename breaks every live call, and introduces a lightweight static analysis tool that treats prompts like contracts, catching breaking changes before they ship.
Small prompt changes can silently break critical behavior in production. This article introduces a practical framework to detect hidden regressions before users notice.
Using DSPy to automatically create, evaluate, and optimize your prompts The post Automate Writing Your LLM Prompts appeared first on Towards Data Science .
The article describes how the author constructed a prompt dependency graph to identify which prompts are affected when a single prompt changes. By separating all reachable components from the smaller subset that truly requires evaluation, the graph helps focus retesting efforts. This approach streamlines testing by pinpointing only the prompts that need targeted evaluation.
A practical tutorial for recording model tool requests, real function results, patches, checks, screenshots, and a saved run log. The post How to Debug AI Coding Agents When They Change the Wrong Thing appeared first on Towards Data Science .
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #9bis] - Your RAG isn’t hallucinating, it’s answering the wrong context faithfully.
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #8B] - A fixed BASE, the rules each question needs, one registry: the dispatcher that turns a parsed question into a typed LLM call The post Assemble Each RAG Generation Prompt from a Base Prompt Plus the Rules Each Question Needs appeared first on Towards Data Science .
arXiv:2511. 19829v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Prompt optimization has become a central mechanism for eliciting strong performance from LLMs, and recent work has made substantial progress by proposing diverse prompt evaluation metrics and optimization strategies.
arXiv:2607. 21756v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in database-backed applications to classify tuples, filter records using semantic predicates, extract structured attributes, and enrich query results.
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #M2] - Every RAG system is built in three engineering layers stacked on one LLM call: prompt (the call itself), context (what fills the model’s window), loop (when the next call fires and when it stops).
But don't let the model check itself The post Design Loops, Not Prompts appeared first on Towards Data Science .
Abacus. AI and the case for unified AI workflows The post How to Navigate the Shift from Prompt-Based Tools to Workflow-Driven AI appeared first on Towards Data Science .
The paper investigates how small lexical changes in prompts can cause large performance swings in large language models. Using a dataset of 132,000 prompt variants, the authors uncover a scaling law linking higher average task performance to lower variance and greater robustness. They identify domain-specific terminology and explicit action directives as key linguistic factors that stabilize prompts, and propose an automated Prompt-Refining Agent that reduces performance variance by 40.7% in code generation while maintaining or improving mean performance.