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Prompt Tricks That Actually Help (and the Ones That Don't)

The internet is full of prompt tricks. A few really help: showing an example, splitting a big job into steps, giving it the facts, and asking for a few versions. Others mostly do not anymore. Here is which is which, matched to the problem you are having.The named techniques (few-shot examples, step-by-step, prompt chaining, grounding, self-critique, role prompts) sorted by what they fix and whether they still matter with current models. Pick by symptom, not by name.Few-shot, chain-of-thought, least-to-most decomposition and prompt chaining, generated knowledge versus grounding, self-refine, role prompting and maieutic prompting, each with a 2026 verdict for current reasoning models, plus tokenisation basics that explain several odd failures.

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Adapted from Microsoft's Generative AI for Beginners (Lesson 4: Prompt engineering fundamentals, Lesson 5: Advanced prompts), MIT License. Rewritten for cannabis operations; not endorsed by Microsoft.