The prompt engineering trap Most developers start with a single prompt. You tell an LLM to "write a technical guide about X," you get a generic result, and then you spend an hour manually editing the hallucinations. This is not a workflow. It is just a faster way to get a bad first draft. When I first tried to automate my technical blog, I thought the solution was a longer prompt. I spent days perfecting a 500 word system instruction. It still failed because the LLM cannot verify its own ...