Lesson 2 — Show, Don't Tell: Few-Shot and Rubrics

Two real examples and one honest rubric beat a paragraph of adjectives every single time.

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Examples encode standards that adjectives cannot; paste real artefacts, not descriptions.
Include one labelled negative example to fence off the failure mode you keep seeing.
A rubric is named criteria with score bands and a pass threshold set in advance.
Put the rubric in the prompt and make the model score and rewrite its own draft before replying.

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