#prompting
5 posts tagged prompting. · All tags
- The Prompt Did Not Do It, Splitting the Stages Did I tried to fix thin summaries with the prompt and made them worse. Separating number extraction from sentence writing raised recall 18 points and presence 2.6 points together
- I Fed It Structured Data Instead of Raw Text Only 15% of periodic-report text was being read; it ate 55% of LLM input and the result was cover-page restatements. Swapping raw text for six confirmed figures from the disclosure API cut input to 1/40 and put numbers in the summaries
- Claude Proposes, Claude Cross-Examines Wiring headless Claude into the trading bot's day by role — news collection, the morning meeting, cross-examination, an evening self-audit, and a different failure default for each role.
- Shrinking the Prompt Made It 55% Faster, and Lost What Actually Mattered The compression that produced −55% was throwing away the core of the domain. A story about a metric I wasn't measuring collapsing.
- Five Days of Fine-Tuning Lost to a 108-Character Prompt I spent five days on LoRA for Gemma 4 26B-A4B and it barely differed from no tuning at all. What happened when I attacked the same task with prompt compression instead.