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Prompt Engineering

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~4 wk

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4 phases

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A progressive route through 12 nodes across 4 phases. Click any node to open the chapter.

  • Chapter
  • Guide
  • Checkpoint
  • Beginner Mid Advanced
  1. 01

    Start

    1 step

    1. 01How LLMs actually work~25 minChapter
  2. 02

    A · Structure

    4 steps

    1. 02Prompt anatomy: role, goal, context, constraints, format~30 minChapter
    2. 03Context windows & token economy~30 minChapter
    3. 04Few-shot examples & negative constraints~35 minChapter
    4. 05Checkpoint A — Structured promptsGateCheckpoint
  3. 03

    B · Patterns

    4 steps

    1. 06Decompose, rubric, chain-of-thought~40 minChapter
    2. 07System prompts & multi-turn conversations~35 minChapter
    3. 08Structured output: JSON mode & schemas~35 minChapter
    4. 09Checkpoint B — Patterns in productionGateCheckpoint
  4. 04

    C · Production

    3 steps

    1. 10Evals, golden sets & failure modes~45 minChapter
    2. 11Team libraries, versioning & privacy~40 minChapter
    3. 12Checkpoint C — Prompt engineer capstoneCapstoneCheckpoint
Text list of all chapters
  1. 01How LLMs actually workStart
  2. 02Prompt anatomy: role, goal, context, constraints, formatA · Structure
  3. 03Context windows & token economyA · Structure
  4. 04Few-shot examples & negative constraintsA · Structure
  5. 05Checkpoint A — Structured promptsA · Structure
  6. 06Decompose, rubric, chain-of-thoughtB · Patterns
  7. 07System prompts & multi-turn conversationsB · Patterns
  8. 08Structured output: JSON mode & schemasB · Patterns
  9. 09Checkpoint B — Patterns in productionB · Patterns
  10. 10Evals, golden sets & failure modesC · Production
  11. 11Team libraries, versioning & privacyC · Production
  12. 12Checkpoint C — Prompt engineer capstoneC · Production

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