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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.
9 min readEvery 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.
9 min readA chatbot answers. An agent finishes the job. The gap between them is not one feature — it's a stack of seven capabilities, built one rung at a time. This series walks that stack in plain English, for engineers and curious non-engineers alike.
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