Prompt Engineering & Structured Output

Prompt Engineering & Structured Output

Constrain, don’t coax — the right answer is almost always the more specific one.

How you talk to the model and make its answers usable by a program. Its signature trap is that the wrong answers sound like good engineering — “raise the temperature,” “use the biggest model,” “fine-tune it.” The right instinct is almost always the more specific, constrained one: cast the model in a role, spell out measurable criteria, force the output shape with a tool schema, ground it in the source text, and verify the result in code.