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The few-shot example design lab

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Examples are executable specifications

A good example demonstrates decisions that would take paragraphs to describe.

Examples are executable specifications ready.

Predict
Inspect
Verify

Few-shot prompting is most useful when the output format is unusual, the tone is specific, the task requires judgement or consistency across runs matters. Bad examples faithfully teach the wrong pattern.

Relevant to real inputs.
Diverse across edge cases.
Structured consistently.