Beginner Track
New to prompting? These 8 lessons take you from zero to writing solid, effective prompts. No prior AI experience needed.
- 1
What is a Prompt? Your First Step into AI
Understand what a prompt is, how AI models process them, and why the words you choose matter more than you think.
4 min read - 2
Clarity & Specificity: The #1 Prompting Skill
Learn why clarity is the single most impactful skill in prompt engineering and how to be specific in ways that dramatically improve your AI outputs.
4 min read - 3
Assigning Roles & Personas to AI Models
Learn how to use role assignment to prime AI models with domain expertise and improve the relevance, tone, and accuracy of their outputs.
4 min read - 4
Formatting Output: Control How AI Responds
Learn how to explicitly control the structure, length, and format of AI responses — so you get exactly what you need, every time.
3 min read - 5
How LLMs Work: What Every Prompter Should Know
A practical, non-technical explanation of how large language models work — and why this understanding makes you a dramatically better prompt engineer.
5 min read - 6
Giving AI the Context It Needs
AI doesn't know who you are, what you do, or what you're trying to accomplish. Learn what context to provide — and how to provide it — so you stop getting generic answers.
5 min read - 7
How to Iterate and Refine Your Prompts
One prompt rarely gets you where you want to go. The best results come from treating prompting as a conversation — refining, redirecting, and building on each response.
6 min read - 8
10 Common Prompting Mistakes (And the Fixes)
These are the patterns that produce bad AI output most of the time. Learn to spot them in your own prompts, fix them, and stop making them by default.
6 min read
After this track:
Move on to the Intermediate Track to learn few-shot prompting, XML structure, chain of thought, and more.
Go to Intermediate Track