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After diving into “Prompt Engineering for Devs” by Ricardo Pupo Larguesa, I felt a mix of admiration and urgency.

Admiration — because the book captures key foundations with clarity and purpose.

Urgency — because there’s a whole dimension missing from the current discourse. A dimension that transforms prompting from a toolset into a way of thinking.

Let’s break it down.

What the Book Gets Right

Larguesa nails the fundamentals:

Prompt as a Human-Machine Interface Clear intent leads to clearer output.

Prompting as a Discipline Iteration, testing, reuse — not just "asking things."

Context Management You must design with memory limitations in mind.

Validation Don’t trust blindly — always verify output.

Modular Design & Reusability Prompt banks, templates, and response formats streamline collaboration.

For devs entering the field, this is solid groundwork.

What’s Missing — and Why It Matters

But here’s where things get interesting.

There are four blind spots in the current prompting paradigm — and this book doesn’t escape them:

1. Prompt ≠ Isolated Command

Prompts are treated like isolated tasks. But in real-world systems (see: test1, test2), prompting is:

The entry point into a living system

Bound to memory, logs, embeddings, versioning

Interdependent with workflows, roles, and environments

A prompt is not just "what you say" — it’s what you activate inside a larger architecture.

2. No Concept of Cognitive Identity

Larguesa addresses “tone” and “style,” but stops short of deeper structure.

What’s missing is persona as internal logic — not decoration.

Real prompt engineering involves:

Narrative consistency

Ethical alignment

Symbolic coherence

Thought scaffolding across iterations

Otherwise, you’re just changing colors on a blank canvas.

3. No Metacognition

There’s no mention of:

Prompts that reflect on previous prompts

Self-assessment

Confidence scoring

Fail-safes or symbolic validators

Modern LLM usage demands systems that think about how they think.

Prompt engineering isn’t just how you start a conversation — it’s how you build reflective agents.

4. No Time Logic

Most examples treat prompting as a single-shot interaction. But reality is a sequence:

Layered inputs

Memory refreshes

Agent dialogue loops

Prompt reconstruction based on user drift

If your prompt logic doesn’t include time, it doesn’t scale.

Prompt as Frequency, Not Just Instruction

A prompt is not a command — it’s a resonance field.

It carries intent, yes — but also shape, weight, memory, tempo.

In some systems (like test2), prompts are designed like chords in music: They harmonize, dissonate, build tension, resolve — across time and context.

This way of prompting is experiential, not just technical.

Final Reflection

Larguesa’s book is a great introduction — But if you’re serious about Prompt Engineering, you’ll need to go deeper.

You’ll need to stop thinking in terms of “inputs” and start thinking in terms of systems.

Because at the end of the day:

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