arXiv Computation and Language

A Tutorial on Prompt Engineering: From Messy Thoughts to AI Workflows

arXiv AI
Jun 17

PromptMN: Pseudo Prompting Language

arXiv:2606. 17164v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Prompting has become the primary interface between humans and generative AI, yet many natural language prompts remain fragile: roles, goals, constraints, and expected outputs are often buried in prose or left implicit.

By Enkhzol Dovdon
arXiv AI
Aug 11

How to Ask the AI: A User Perspective Survey for Large Language Model Prompting

arXiv:2608. 07494v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI tools like ChatGPT and DeepSeek, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), allow users to obtain instant and effective content responses simply by typing requests, such as ``plan a three-day Vienna trip'', ``solve the attached mathematical problem'', ``draft an email to inquire review progress'', etc.

By Yiqun Zhang, Yunfan Zhang, Mingjie Zhao, Sen Feng, Yiu-ming Cheung
arXiv AI
Sep 11

MOONWALK: Mediating Operations with Intent-Evidence-Action Alignment Across Junior-Supervisor Review Workflows in Animation/VFX Pre-Production

MOONWALK is a pre‑production review system for animation and VFX that aligns creative intent, evidence, and action across junior‑supervisor workflows. It records shared intent, anchors judgments to evidence, and translates decisions into clear revision tasks tied to reference notes, with AI handling administrative coordination. A studio study shows that MOONWALK improves intent alignment, decision traceability, and checklist executability compared to a chat‑only interface, while keeping aesthetic authority with practitioners.

By Shih-Yu Lai, Wen-Fan Wang, Sai Ling, Shaune Jan, Bing-Yu Chen, Xiang Anthony Chen
arXiv AI
6d ago

Agentick: A Unified Benchmark for General Sequential Decision-Making Agents

Agentick is a unified benchmark for sequential decision‑making agents that evaluates RL, LLM, VLM, hybrid, and human agents on 37 procedurally generated tasks across six capability categories, four difficulty levels, and five observation modalities via a single Gymnasium‑compatible interface. It includes a Coding API, oracle reference policies, pre‑built SFT datasets, a composable agent harness, and a live leaderboard. An evaluation of 27 configurations and over 90,000 episodes shows no single approach dominates, with GPT‑5 mini leading overall, PPO excelling in planning and multi‑agent tasks, and the reasoning harness boosting LLM performance by 3‑10×, while ASCII observations outperform natural language.

By Roger Creus Castanyer, Pablo Samuel Castro, Glen Berseth
arXiv AI
Aug 24

SDAD: Spec-Driven Agentic Development for the AI-Native SDLC

The paper introduces Spec-Driven Agentic Development (SDAD), a framework that leverages large language models to ingest extensive functional requirement documents and repository context in a single workflow, turning specification quality into the engine for autonomous software delivery. SDAD blends disciplined upfront formalisation with rapid implementation, encompassing intent capture, machine‑readable specifications, agentic synthesis, and multi‑agent verification with human sign‑off. It positions AI‑code as a fourth production paradigm, compares it to traditional Waterfall and Agile approaches, and extends the model to team role evolution, quantitative governance metrics, and a staged migration blueprint for practical adoption.

By Vu Hung Nguyen, Thanh Nguyen