
From Prompting to Porting: Surviving the LLM Upgrade Cycle
If you’re running a GenAI-powered application today, you’re likely sitting on a ticking time bomb. It isn’t your codebase or infrastructure — it’s your prompts. As Large Language Models (LLMs) evolve at breakneck speed, your carefully tuned prompts degrade silently, causing once-reliable applications to behave erratically. The case of Tursio, an enterprise search tool, makes one thing painfully clear: prompt migration is no longer optional — it’s survival. The Hidden Cost of Progress In 2023, Tursio ran reliably on GPT-4-32k. By mid-2025, it had to migrate twice — first to GPT-4.5-preview, then to GPT-4.1. Each model came with its own quirks: ...