Prompt Engineering, Step by Step
A short, practical course in nine lessons — with exercises and the mistakes you can skip.
What's Inside
- 01Before you start
- 02Lesson 1 — The four parts
- 03Lesson 2 — Context is the biggest lever
- 04Lesson 3 — Define the output first
- 05Lesson 4 — Show, don't describe
- 06Lesson 5 — Role and audience
- 07Lesson 6 — Let it think
- 08Lesson 7 — Following up
- 09Lesson 8 — Structure for bigger tasks
- 10Lesson 9 — Spotting when it's wrong
- 11The one-page summary
Who It's For
Good fit if
- You want to understand why some prompts work and others don't
- You'd rather learn by doing than by theory
- You want to write your own prompts instead of copying someone else's
Not for you if
- You just want ready-made templates — Pack 01 covers that
- You're looking for API documentation
A Look Inside
Four parts: Task, Context, Material, Output.
Almost every prompt that works has these four parts.
Almost every one that fails is missing one of them.
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