AI 102

If you read the vocabulary post , you know what a prompt is. You know the difference between a model and a model family. You've got the words now. This post is about what to do with them. Having vocabulary for the pieces doesn't automatically tell you how the pieces move. You can know what a prompt is and still write ones that produce wildly inconsistent results. You can understand what an agent is and still not know why yours keeps breaking at step three. The gap between "it kind of works" and "it actually works" isn't usually a vocabulary problem anymore. It's a structure problem. That structure comes down to three things and how they talk to each other. These three concepts build on each other. You cannot have a workflow without prompts. You cannot have tool chaining without workflows. Understanding them in order is the fastest path to building things that actually behave the way you intended. What is a Prompt? A prompt is your instruction to the LLM. It's the text you write before