I applied the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem to LLM prompt engineering. The core finding: a raw prompt is 1 sample of a 6-band specification signal, producing aliasing (hallucination, hedging, structural incoherence).
Key results from 275 production observations:
- CONSTRAINTS band carries 42.7% of output quality
- SNR improvement from 0.003 to 0.92
- 97% API cost reduction ($1,500 to $45/month)
- All 4 optimized agents converge to identical zone allocation
Paper: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19152668
Code: https://github.com/mdalexandre/sinc-llm
pip install sinc-llm
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