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The Accordion Pattern: Why I stopped writing one fat LLM prompt

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The Accordion Pattern: Why I stopped writing one fat LLM prompt

Most structured-extraction tutorials look the same. Take a document, write one big prompt that says...

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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3903757) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Hideki Mori Posted on Apr 29 The Accordion Pattern: Why I stopped writing one fat LLM prompt #llm #ai #architecture #api Most structured-extraction tutorials look the same. Take a document, write one big prompt that says "extract A, B, C, D, E, F", get JSON back. Done. This works on short inputs. It quietly breaks on long ones. After running this in production for a while, I stopped doing it. Here's what I switched to and why.

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