Prompt engineering

Prompt quality is mostly model-specific. The same instruction that fixes verbosity on one model causes over-verification on another, and instructions written for a previous generation frequently become the cause of the problem on the current one. So the first job is always to find out which model the prompt runs on, and the second is to read that model's guidance before writing anything.

Step 1 — Route

Answer three questions before touching the prompt.

1. What mode is this?