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Prompt Engineering Fundamentals

Move from "asking AI questions" to "engineering AI outputs."

Topics covered

  1. 01Anatomy of a strong prompt: role, context, task, constraints, format
  2. 02Few-shot prompting with examples
  3. 03Chain of thought and reasoning prompts
  4. 04Structured outputs: JSON, tables, schemas
  5. 05Common failure modes and how to debug them
  6. 06When to iterate vs. start over with a fresh prompt
  7. 07Best-practices checklist for shipping prompts

Build challenge

Deliverable

A 10-prompt personal library for the hire's role, submitted to the Outpost shared library.