Prompt Engineering

How to ask an AI model for what you actually want, and how to tell when you have not.

1. 01What a prompt actually isYou are not asking a question. You are supplying the beginning of something and asking for the rest.about 6 minutes
2. 02What the model is doing when it answersOne mental model that explains varying answers, confident wrongness, and why examples work.about 7 minutes
3. 03Giving it the material to work withWhy supplying the document beats describing it, and what to include alongside it.about 7 minutes
4. 04Giving the model a role and an audienceWhy naming who is speaking and who is listening changes the answer.about 6 minutes
5. 05Showing examples instead of explainingWhy one good example outperforms a paragraph of description.about 8 minutes
6. 06Asking for a format, and setting limitsSpecifying the shape of an answer, ruling things out, and why some phrasings backfire.about 7 minutes
7. 07Breaking a big ask into stepsWhy one enormous request underperforms three small ones.about 7 minutes
8. 08Knowing when the answer is wrong, and what to changeSpotting a confidently wrong answer, then fixing the prompt rather than arguing with the reply.about 10 minutes

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