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Structured Prompting: Plan, Do, Verify

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Chris Laub
Contributed byChris LaubXSource

Jan 5, 2026

Structured Prompting: Plan, Do, Verify A concise prompt engineering tip emphasizing the importance of adding a plan-do-verify structure to improve AI output accuracy.

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The pattern: these techniques all add structure AROUND the generation step. Bad prompting: "Do the thing" Engineer prompting: "Plan how you'll do the thing, do the thing, verify the thing" Models are prediction engines. Give them a better scaffold and they predict better outputs. The difference between 70% accuracy and 95% is usually prompt design, not model capability.

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