Micro-Course · Generative AI
Prompt Mastery
Beginner 31 min 5 Bytes Generative AI
From 'why doesn't this work' to 'this ships in production'. The five prompt patterns and how to choose between them.
What you'll cover
- What is an LLM? — Tokens, embeddings, attention — the simplest possible mental model.
- Prompt engineering 101 — The five prompt patterns that account for 80% of real-world wins.
- Prompt patterns that ship — Few-shot, chain-of-thought, role, format.
- Function calling, demystified — Why structured tool use beats freeform JSON, with a runnable example.
- Reliable LLM output parsing — Schemas, validators, retries.