Prompt Engineering Mastery

Get reliable output from any model, every time

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Taught by Andrej Karpathy
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Prompting foundations from first principles

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AI lesson summary

Why prompts work the way they do, framed by how the model was trained.

Key takeaways

  • Context is the model working memory
  • Specific roles beat vague instructions
  • Examples outperform adjectives

Practical exercise

Rewrite a vague prompt into a structured one with role, task and format.

About this course

Move past prompt tricks. Learn structured prompting, role framing, few-shot patterns, evaluation and prompt versioning.

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