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AI Driven Strategies for Effective Prompt Engineering

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4 hours
Intermediate
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Design prompts as small specifications: instructions, context, output shape, examples, checks, and a review that catches injection and over-trust.

Overview

A prompt is not a magic sentence. It is a short specification for one completion: what to do, what context to use, what shape to return, and what to refuse. Better prompts come from clearer tasks, not from longer adjectives.

This course is for people who already use a chat model and want a method they can repeat. You will separate instructions from context, write examples that do not leak the answer, break hard tasks into steps, and keep a small library your team can share.

You will also practice the failure modes: a prompt that trusts the model too much, a pasted document that overrides your instructions, and a draft that looks finished. Two quizzes check the strategy before you ship a prompt into a workflow.

Features
  • A working picture of what a prompt is doing to the next completion
  • A split between instructions, context, and output shape
  • Patterns for role, constraints, and few-shot examples that do not leak
  • A way to break a hard task into steps and to check the result
  • Different prompts for analysis and for drafting
  • A shared library plus a review for injection, leakage, and over-trust

Target audiences
  • People who write prompts every week and want them to be repeatable
  • Analysts, writers, and support leads building a team prompt library
  • Developers who wrap a model and need a prompt spec, not a slogan
  • Students who have tried chat tools and want a method

Requirements
  • Access to a chat model you are allowed to use
  • One real task you can practice on, with no secrets in the text
  • You have written prompts before, even messy ones
  • No model-training background is required

Curriculum

4 sections 12 lectures 4 hours

How a prompt works 2 lectures 34 mins
Patterns that hold up 4 lectures 1h 4m
  • Role, task, constraints, and examples
    Locked 18 min
  • Few-shot examples that do not leak the answer
    Locked 18 min
  • Break a hard task into steps
    Locked 18 min
  • Quiz: Prompt foundations
    Locked 10 min
Strategies for real work 3 lectures 48 mins
  • Prompts for analysis and prompts for drafting
    Locked 16 min
  • Check, retry, and tighten
    Locked 16 min
  • A prompt library the team can share
    Locked 16 min
Failure modes 3 lectures 48 mins
  • Injection, leakage, and over-trust
    Locked 18 min
  • Review a prompt before you ship it
    Locked 18 min
  • Quiz: Prompt strategy review
    Locked 12 min

Frequently Asked Questions

01. Is there one perfect prompt template?

No. This course gives a structure you fill in for the task. The words change when the job changes.

02. Will this jailbreak a model?

No. The failure-mode lesson is about defending a workflow, not about bypassing safety rules.

03. Do I need to code?

No. You can do every practice in a chat window and a notes file.

04. Should I paste private documents?

Only in a tool your organization has approved, and only after you remove what the task does not need.

05. How long is the course?

About 4 hours, including 10 lessons and 2 quizzes.

Instructors

Elena Kowalski

Product Strategist

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I’m Elena Kowalski, a product strategist who enjoys connecting customer needs, business goals, and innovative ideas. I help teams identify opportunities, prioritize the right problems, and develop product strategies that create lasting value. In my courses, I share practical approaches to product discovery, market research, roadmap planning, and strategic decision-making. My goal is to help you think more strategically, make informed product decisions, and turn promising ideas into products that people truly need.

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