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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 an AI Agent?
Understand what separates an AI agent from a regular prompt. Learn how agents perceive, reason, act, and loop — and why this architecture unlocks a completely new class of AI applications.
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.
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.
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.