Prompt Engineering: From Trick to Mature Discipline

Prompt engineering has moved from viral tricks to a discipline with reproducible patterns: few-shot, chain-of-thought, and structured output with function calling. Teams treating prompts like code (versioned, tested, and monitored) get consistently better results than those who improvise.

April 17, 2026 5 min 281 4.7

Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI Function Calling: Structuring Model Output

Function calling converts the LLM into a component that returns structured data. How it works, real use cases, and common production pitfalls.

October 20, 2023 5 min 224 4.5

Artificial Intelligence

ChatGPT With Plugins: An Ecosystem Under Construction

ChatGPT plugins let the model invoke external services through an OpenAPI specification. Three months after launch, the ecosystem has around 500 plugins with a clear pattern: they work well for live data lookup and internal API exposure, but show friction in multi-plugin orchestration and real-money transactions.

July 4, 2023 5 min 224 4.7