Tag: prompt-engineering

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• Prompt templates in Spring AI — stop hardcoding your prompts

  2 Mar, 2026

  Hardcoded prompt strings in Java code are hard to review, impossible to change without a redeploy, and a maintenance nightmare at scale. Spring AI's PromptTemplate solves this. Here is how to use it properly.

• Prompt engineering basics every developer needs before writing any code

  2 Mar, 2026

  A prompt is not just a question — it is an instruction set. This post covers the anatomy of effective prompts, zero-shot vs few-shot prompting, chain-of-thought reasoning, and the most common mistakes developers make when writing their first prompts.