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Lesson 3 — Chaining and Decomposition
When one prompt has to be right about five things at once, it will be mediocre at all five.
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- Decompose any task where the steps have different definitions of success.
- Define the exact output shape of each step so the next step has a stable contract.
- Use the extract, decide, write, check chain; the decide step is the one people skip.
- Do not chain single-criterion tasks; the handoff cost outweighs the benefit.
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