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Prompt engineering · Intermediate · 4 h

Designing prompts that behave

Role and context, precise instructions, delimiters, examples, output formats and iterating against an evaluation set.

Why employers care: Most LLM features live or die on their prompts. Engineers who can make behaviour reliable and explain why are in demand.

In the roadmaps for: AI/ML Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer

Lessons, in order

  1. Prompts as code: structure, examples and iterationTurn a vague instruction into a structured, versioned prompt, and improve it one measured change at a time.4 min