CRAFT & FIELD NOTES

CUE NOTES & BENCHMARKS

Essays, benchmarks, and field notes on prompt engineering, transformer self-attention mechanisms, and developer flow.

Prompting Craft•September 2026•6 min read

Why prompting is a staging problem, not a conversation problem

How treating LLM interactions as conversational dialogues burns token attention, induces hallucination loops, and why negative constraints stabilize model outputs.

Engineering•August 2026•9 min read

Benchmarking 1-turn vs 4-turn prompting across 1,000 queries

An empirical analysis of token waste, latency overhead, and developer frustration when using raw prompt drafts vs structured intent compilers.

Security•August 2026•5 min read

The architecture of zero-retention BYOK prompting

Why middleware proxies are an unnecessary security liability when modern browser extension architectures can dispatch encrypted requests directly from the client.