Break a vague prompt request into explicit reasoning steps before drafting the production prompt.
Advanced prompting gets better when you stop drafting the final prompt first. Chain-of-thought as task decomposition Treat chain-of-thought as a design scaffold: list the decisions, evidence, and checks the model must complete before the final response exists. That moves reasoning from a vague hope into visible task architecture. How it connects to the rest of the stack Once the decomposition is clear, few-shot examples can teach the right judgment instead of generic style. Role prompting and XML tags can separate instructions, context, examples, and live input so the model knows what each block is for. Prompt chaining then lets you…
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