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Build Your First AI Agent: A Beginner's Step-by-Step Guide
Build a working AI agent from scratch — one that can use tools, make decisions, and complete multi-step tasks. No prior agent experience needed.
How RAG Works: The Plain-English Guide to Retrieval Augmented Generation
RAG is the most widely used technique in production AI. Here's a clear, jargon-free explanation of how it works, why it matters, and when to use it.
LLM Settings: Temperature, Top-P, Max Tokens, and More
Understanding temperature, top-p, max tokens, and stop sequences lets you control exactly how an AI model responds. Here's what each setting does and when to change it.
Prompt Elements: The Four Building Blocks of Any Good Prompt
Every effective prompt is built from four elements: instruction, context, input data, and output format. Learn what each does and how to combine them for consistently better results.
What is Prompt Engineering? A Complete Beginner's Guide
Learn what prompt engineering is, why it matters, and how writing better prompts can dramatically improve your results with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Prompt Templates I Actually Use Every Day (Steal These)
Not hypothetical examples. Not tutorial prompts. These are the exact templates I reach for constantly — for writing, research, coding, and decision-making.
Why Your AI Results Are Mediocre (It's Not the Model)
Most people blame ChatGPT or Claude when they get bad output. The problem is almost always the prompt. Here are the real reasons AI results disappoint — and what to do about each one.
Role Prompting Playbook: Give AI a Job Title That Works
Assigning AI a role is one of the oldest prompting tricks — and one of the most misunderstood. Here's the difference between roles that reshape output and roles that do nothing.
How to Use AI for Research Without Getting Fooled
AI is a genuinely useful research tool — if you know where it's reliable and where it makes things up. Here's how to actually use it for learning and research without getting burned.
The Iteration Loop: Refine Prompts Until They Work
Most people treat prompting like a vending machine — one press, one result. The people who get genuinely good output treat it like a conversation. Here's the method.