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Ai Ml

System Prompts & Personas: The Cheapest Control Surface

Before RAG, before tools, before agents — a well-written system prompt is still the single highest-leverage knob you have. Here's what it actually does, why most people misuse it, and what its honest limits are.

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Ai Ml

The Chat Baseline: What You're Starting With

Every AI product in the world starts as the same small, strange thing — a stateless function that turns tokens into tokens. Understand that substrate clearly and every capability above it stops looking like magic.

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