Systems Using Pattern
Prompting
A guide to building robust and secure GenAI applications
using software engineering best practices
Tim O'Brien
,Building Complex Multi-Agent Systems Using Pattern
Prompting
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, To John Milo Slick, former manager at Nortel Networks, who taught me how to write quality code
and shared many valuable lessons about life.
– Tim O'Brien