https://sparsenotes.com/tags/prompt-engineering/ Recent content in prompt-engineering on Sparse Notes https://sparsenotes.com/images/og-default.png https://sparsenotes.com/images/og-default.png Hugo -- gohugo.io Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/11/unhobbling-the-frontier-lance-martin/ Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sparsenotes.com/posts/2026/11/unhobbling-the-frontier-lance-martin/ Lance Martin argues most LLM applications sit inside the cost/quality frontier because of fixable misconfigurations: stale prompt habits, broken prompt caching, unclimbable evals, overfit hill-climbing and harnesses not built for multi-day agents.