Improve a behavior with prompt engineering before escalating to retrieval or fine-tuning.
Same assistant, same model. What changed before the team considered a tune? Before: prompt edits lived in a chat scratchpad. After: prompt behavior is reviewed and tested. The prompt moved from a scratchpad into a versioned helper, because prompt edits change product behavior and need review. The examples became short and representative, because few-shot prompting teaches the pattern without burying the task. A fixture set runs before publish, because evals tell the team whether prompting is enough before fine-tuning adds cost. Use prompting until the evals prove the instruction layer is not enough. Prompt before tuning You made the lightest…
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