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Step-by-Step Prompting: A Practical Workflow That Works Better

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Francis Tan
Nov 13, 2025
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How do you eat an elephant?
One bite at a time.

Like most people, I used to view prompting as writing the perfect sentence and hitting Enter to achieve the ideal output. If I didn’t get what I wanted, it must be the prompt. I need a better prompt. So, my prompts get longer and longer, and the LLM gets more and more “confused”.

Now, I do not see prompting a…

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