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Advanced Prompt Engineering: The Tone Tax on My Token Bill

Prompt tone changes LLM output token count by up to 44%, per a new arXiv paper. Here is what I measured on my own prompts,…

Rayyan | August 1, 2026 | 7 min

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Few-Shot Prompting: When More Examples Make It Worse

Adding more few-shot examples can quietly make your LLM prompt worse. Here is what the over-prompting research found and how I size the example set…

Rayyan | July 30, 2026 | 7 min

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LLM Context Windows: The Anti-Hallucination Prompt That Backfired

My long-context RAG bot kept refusing questions whose answers were right there. The fix was in my anti-hallucination prompt, not my retriever.

Rayyan | July 19, 2026 | 8 min

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Context Engineering vs Prompt Engineering: Why My Agents Failed

Prompt engineering tunes what you ask. Context engineering decides what the model sees at all. Where my agents kept dying on long runs, and the…

Rayyan | June 13, 2026 | 7 min

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I Stopped Claude From Rambling and Cut My Output Tokens by 75%

I used to watch Claude Code stream paragraphs of “Let me think about this carefully…” before every answer. Polite. Thorough. Also expensive. Then I found…

Rayyan | April 21, 2026 | 3 min