The TechBeat: Prompt Chaining: Turn One Prompt Into a Reliable LLM Workflow (1/5/2026)

How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what's trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## A Developer's Guide to Building Next-Gen Smart Wallets With ERC-4337 — Part 2: Bundlers By @hacker39947670 [ 15 Min read ] Bundlers are the bridge between account abstraction and the execution layer. Read More.

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The Hidden Cost of AI: Why It’s Making Workers Smarter, but Organisations Dumber

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Secury Wallet Unveils Next-Generation Multichain Crypto Wallet With Chat to Pay, Opens $SEC Presale

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How Crypto Can Protect People from Currency Wars

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10 AI Marketing Strategies for Startups in 2026

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Hiring Didn’t Fail - Evidence Did.

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Prompt Chaining: Turn One Prompt Into a Reliable LLM Workflow

By @superorange0707 [ 7 Min read ] Prompt Chaining links prompts into workflows—linear, branching, looping—so LLM outputs are structured, debuggable, and production-ready. Read More.

Slop Isn’t the Problem. It’s the Symptom.

By @normbond [ 3 Min read ] When teams move fast without shared meaning, quality dissolves quietly. Why slop is a symptom of interpretation lag, not a technology failure. Read More.

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The HackerNoon Newsletter: 10 Noteworthy C and C++ Bugs Found in Open-Source Projects in 2025 (1/3/2026)

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The Brain at the Edge of Chaos. When Predictive Coding Fails and Randomness Enters

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AI Slop, Demo Culture and Market Crashes Are the Same System Failure

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DeFi Crypto Mutuum Finance (MUTM) Finalizes V1 Smart Contract Audit With Halborn Security

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