The Breakpoint [2026-01-20] - Prompt engineering best practices
Meow world, welcome back to The Breakpoint, a weekly thread on all things dev tools on Product Hunt.
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Prompt engineering best practices?
In this thread, Ilia is discussing prompt engineering best practices: how/where to save and organize your prompts, how to improve them overtime, depending on the models. Contributions highlight the importance of a spec-driven approach, starting with the expected outcomes then breaking down step-by-step the different dependencies.
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Recent dev-first products launched on the site—that are actively hiring. No affiliation, most of them are hiring across the board. Supported by DatoCMS.
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Pretty Prompt
Love the prompt engineering thread! My new name for it: Context Engineering :)
Humans in the Loop
@ilaiszp exactly :)
Pretty Prompt
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