Beyond Prompt Engineering
Beyond Prompt Engineering
The Revolutionary Way to Learn Augmented Thinking
About the Book
Discover the Hidden Patterns of Revolutionary Thinking
What if the most powerful cognitive frameworks for mastering AI collaboration already exist, but remain invisible to most practitioners?
Beyond Prompt Engineering reveals a set of revolutionary thinking patterns that transformed computing during the Cold War and now hold the key to unlocking unprecedented value from Large Language Models. These patterns exist whether you perceive them or not—like black ice on a winter highway—but once recognized, they transform how you think and collaborate.
While everyone else focuses on perfecting prompts, you'll learn something far more valuable: how to engage in dynamic collaborative dialogues that surface insights neither human nor AI could reach alone.
This book unveils the Ten Revolutionizer Patterns—rarely taught thinking frameworks that enable you to:
- Transform apparent constraints into your greatest advantages
- Perceive systems as wholes rather than collections of components
- Make unexpected connections across domains
- Develop metacognitive awareness of your own thinking processes
- Build comprehensive mental models that integrate diverse knowledge
Through three real-world implementations—a winter mountain ascent, a cognitive computing breakthrough, and early aviation innovation—you'll see these patterns in action across drastically different domains and eras.
Unlike conventional prompt engineering that treats AI as a static tool, this approach teaches you to engage in Socratic dialogue with AI assistants, creating a powerful thinking partnership that amplifies your cognitive capabilities.
Whether you're a developer, researcher, knowledge worker, or simply curious about maximizing AI's potential, these durable skills will maintain their value across technological generations.
Beyond Prompt Engineering provides the missing link between technical capabilities and revolutionary outcomes—revealing patterns hidden in plain sight that will transform not just how you use AI, but how you think.
Note: This book serves as both a standalone guide and a foundation for the forthcoming "Finding Your Route to Mastery" series.
About the Author
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1:Not What You Expect
- Chapter 2:Prologue: The Back Story
- Mental Models
- Name Change Creates Opportunity
- Searching For the Problem
- The Time Travel Pattern
- History Versus Teaching
- Teaching the Patterns
- Chapter 3:LLM Example: Developing GitHub Private Repository Search
- Project Brief
- First Enhancement
- Second Enhancement
- Third Enhancement
- Chapter 4:LLM Example: Developing an N8N Workflow
- Problem statement
- Checkpoint Restart
- Chapter 5:The Revolutionizers
- “Revolutionizers” Doctrine
- “Nobody but Us” Doctrine
- The Computing Pioneers
- The “Black Ice” Paradox
- Observing the Consequence
- Key “Revolutionizer” Cognitive Patterns Worth Preserving
- The Soylent Green Pattern
- Collaborative LLM Methodology
- The Labor Market Gap
- The Unique Methodology
- The Career-Enhancing Value
- The Target Audience
- Holistic Systems Thinking
- Chapter 6:Experiential Example: College Spring Break
- College Spring Break
- The Goal
- Practice Climb
- Crevasse Rescue Training
- Up the Mountain
- What Goes Up Must Come Down
- 40 Years… and Back
- Summary
- Chapter 7:LLM Conversation Example: Discovering Systems-First Approach
- Transcript
- Surfacing the Concept
- Conclusion
- Chapter 8:Historical Narrative Example: Constraint Transformation
- Theoretical Framework
- Why This Matters Now
- Mary Pickford
- Poster Plane
- Not a Little Girl Anymore
- Griffith Park
- Valeska Suratt
- Charles F. Willard
- First Attempt
- The Boy Engineer
- This Conversation Did Not Happen—Yet
- Chapter 9:The Four Steps to Mastery
- Chapter 10:Road Map
- Series Identity: “Systems Thinking Across Domains”
- Volume Progression and Differentiation
- Volume 1: Finding Your Route to Mastery
- Volume 2: Billy Mitchell’s Bombsight: The Transformational Journey of Constraints
- Volume 3: Billy Mitchell’s Bomber: Mental Models Become Action
- Volume 4: Pappy Gunn’s Stolen Balls of Fire: Fly It Like You Stole It
- Cross-Volume Connections
- Reader Development Journey
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