Prompt Engineering & Workflow Architecture

Designing effective prompts, plan-driven development, and structuring AI-assisted workflows.

Summaries

Prompting Fundamentals

• Prompt Engineering — Blattman's guide to crafting effective prompts
• Prompting Insights (Golub) — Benjamin Golub's prompting philosophy from Markus Academy Ep. 154
• Prompt Library (Wharton Generative AI Labs) — Ethan & Lilach Mollick's CC BY 4.0 library of structured prompt templates, plus a checklist for testing reusable prompts across runs and models

Advanced Prompting & Verification

• Prompts and Agent Swarms (Markus Academy 166-4) — Sandomirskiy on prompt expansion, prover/verifier/judge, never feeding PDFs, and the 64-agent swarm recipe with an escalation escape hatch

Plan-Driven Development

• Prompt, Plan, Review, Revise — Four-phase iterative workflow for AI-assisted projects
• Architecture Patterns — Structural patterns for organizing AI workflows
• Patterns — Recurring interaction patterns with AI coding tools

Workflow Design

• Workflow Overview — High-level map of AI-assisted research workflows
• Workflows — Detailed workflow implementations and examples
• Use This Prompt to Make a Deck — Cunningham's single prompt for Beamer deck generation with multi-agent review

Project Configuration

• Your CLAUDE.md — Writing effective CLAUDE.md project instruction files
• AI Project Folders — Organizing project directories for AI-assisted work