Tag: best-practices

All the articles with the tag "best-practices".

• Rate Limits Are a Feature, Not a Bug. Here's Why.

  

  Rate limits feel like artificial restrictions. They're not. They force you to build better systems with queuing, caching, and backpressure. Here's why unlimited access would actually be worse.

• When NOT to Use AI

  

  Not every problem needs AI. Sometimes a regex is better. Sometimes a database query is better. Here's when to skip the AI and write simple code instead.

• Stop Maxing Out Your Context Window

  

  Everyone brags about 200k token context windows. Nobody talks about how response quality tanks when you fill them. Here's how to use context intelligently.

• System Prompts vs User Messages (And Why It Matters)

  

  Everyone focuses on what they ask the AI. Nobody focuses on the system prompt that controls how it responds. Here's the message structure you're probably ignoring.