Why Your GPT Prompts FailThe 2026 Prompt Engineering Guide to Writing Better AI Prompts, Reducing Hallucinations, and Mastering Generative AIImagine this: It's 3 a.m., deadline looming, and your AI has just delivered a flawless-looking report-except every third fact is invented, the structure is chaotic, and the tone veers wildly off-brand. You spent two hours tweaking the prompt, only to start over. Again. In 2026, when generative AI powers everything from business strategies to creative workflows, these moments aren't mere annoyances-they're silent killers of efficiency, trust, and competitive edge.You purchased the tool to save time. Instead, it's stealing it. The culprit? Not the model. It's the prompt.With searches for "prompt engineering techniques" and "reduce AI hallucinations" surging amid rapid model evolution, veteran tech specialist Pete D. Jenkins delivers the systematic fix: the C.R.A.F.T. Framework. This battle-tested approach aligns with 2026's best practices-structured workflows, ethical constraints, and adaptive prompting-to transform unreliable outputs into dependable assets.Stop endless revisions. Start achieving first-try precision.Inside this essential guide, master the five non-negotiable elements: Context: Deliver precise facts to ground responses and eliminate hallucinations.Role: Assign expert personas for targeted, authoritative perspectives.Action: Define clear, multistep workflows for complex automation and agentic tasks.Format: Mandate usable structures-JSON, tables, code blocks-for instant applicability.Tone & Constraints: Enforce brand voice, security, and ethical boundaries to ensure safe, on-target results.Whether you're a professional combating hallucinations in reports, a creator optimizing ChatGPT prompts, or a team building reliable LLM integrations, this book provides timeless principles adaptable to today's multimodal and agentic AI landscape. Your frustration ends here. Mastery-and real productivity-begins now.