Intermediate Track
Know the basics? These 8 lessons cover the techniques professionals use every day.
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Few-Shot Prompting: Teaching AI by Example
Learn how to use few-shot prompting to dramatically improve AI output quality by showing the model exactly what you want through examples.
5 min read - 2
XML Tags & Delimiters: Structure Your Prompts Like a Pro
Learn how to use XML tags and delimiters to clearly separate instructions from data in your prompts — a technique that dramatically reduces errors on complex tasks.
4 min read - 3
Chain of Thought Prompting: Make AI Reason Step by Step
Chain of Thought (CoT) prompting forces AI to show its reasoning before answering — dramatically improving accuracy on logic, math, analysis, and multi-step tasks.
5 min read - 4
Avoiding Hallucinations: Keep AI Grounded in Facts
Learn what causes AI hallucinations and the specific prompting techniques that dramatically reduce fabricated facts, fake citations, and confidently wrong answers.
5 min read - 5
Constrained Generation: Force Structured Output
Learn how to make AI models reliably output JSON, XML, CSV, and other structured formats — essential for integrating AI into real applications and workflows.
4 min read - 6
System Prompts: Giving AI Standing Instructions
System prompts let you set persistent rules, persona, and context that apply to every message in a conversation. Learn how to write them effectively and when they change everything.
7 min read - 7
Prompting With Long Documents and Large Context
Pasting a 50-page document and asking 'what do you think?' rarely works. Learn how to structure prompts for long-form content, extract what matters, and work around context limits.
7 min read - 8
Multimodal Prompting: Working with Images, Files, and Mixed Content
Modern AI models can see, read files, and process multiple input types at once. Learn how to structure prompts that work with images, documents, data files, and mixed content effectively.
7 min read
After this track:
Take on the Advanced Track for prompt chaining, evaluation frameworks, tree of thought, and expert-level patterns.
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