http://www.jjshanks.net/tags/prompt-engineering/ Recent content in Prompt-Engineering on jjshanks.net Hugo en Sun, 03 May 2026 09:00:00 -0800 http://www.jjshanks.net/posts/auto-ocr-pipeline/ Sun, 03 May 2026 09:00:00 -0800 http://www.jjshanks.net/posts/auto-ocr-pipeline/ <p><strong>Quick Take</strong> I built a local OCR pipeline to convert technical documents into markdown that LLMs can actually reason from. The two biggest breakthroughs were cross-AI judging to break prompt-optimization deadlocks, and blank-region detection that increased figure recovery from 4 to 73 on a 72-page document.</p> <p>Recently, I started testing models and coding harnesses by giving them a technical write-up and asking them to build a learning site from it. The prompt I use:</p>