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.