Reasoning

The 2026 paradigm shift in prompting: stop telling AI how to do things step-by-step and start defining what success looks like. A meta-prompt that turns any LLM into an autonomous executor by specifying outcomes, constraints, and quality bars instead of procedures.

A meta-prompt that forces any LLM to outline its reasoning plan before executing, giving you a checkpoint to correct course — the single most impactful prompting technique of the GPT-5 / Claude 4 era.