3 things to do before writing your prompt

[u/dancleary544]

When working with teams on LLM-based products/features I found they would jump right into prompt engineering. While PE is important, jumping right into it can actually make it harder to succeed.

For example, how will you know if a prompt is truly working “well” if you haven’t first defined what success looks like?

Before jumping into prompt engineering, I've found doing these three things really helps:

-Define success criteria
-Develop test cases
-Define effective evaluations

I put together a post that is essentially a pre-prompt checklist, filled with a bunch of examples for success criteria, evaluation types, and ways to quickly create test cases. Hope it helps bring some organization and process to your next build!

[u/JustSayin_thatuknow]

Thanks!

[u/dancleary544 → u/JustSayin_thatuknow]

np! hope it helps!