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Course 05 · Beginner

Prompt Engineering Mastery

Every technique that matters in 2026 — from zero-shot to chain-of-thought to prompt injection defense.

The complete prompting curriculum: foundations, reasoning techniques, reliability, structured output, image and multimodal prompting, and the security layer — prompt hacking and how to defend against it. 35 lessons, every one hands-on, every technique tested against current frontier models.

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Module 01 · Prompting Foundations

The working parts of a prompt — precise instructions, delimiters, roles, and examples — assembled into contracts that hold up under real input.

  1. What Prompt Engineering Actually Isconcept9 min
  2. Anatomy of a Promptconcept10 min
  3. Instructions & Constraintswalkthrough14 min
  4. Role Promptingconcept9 min
  5. Zero-Shot, One-Shot, Few-Shotwalkthrough14 min
  6. Combining the Basicssandbox16 min

Module 02 · Reasoning Techniques

Make models show and improve their work: chain-of-thought, decomposition, voting across samples, and where 2026 reasoning models change the playbook.

  1. Chain-of-Thought Promptingconcept10 min
  2. Zero-Shot CoT & Step-by-Step Triggerswalkthrough13 min
  3. Self-Consistencyconcept9 min
  4. Decomposition: Least-to-Most & Subproblemswalkthrough14 min
  5. Generated Knowledge & Prompt Primingconcept10 min
  6. Reasoning Models vs CoT Promptsconcept11 min

Module 03 · Reliability & Truthfulness

Why models fabricate, and the countermeasures that ship: calibrated abstention, critique loops, ensembles, debiasing, and prompt test sets.

  1. Why Models Hallucinateconcept10 min
  2. Calibration: Getting 'I Don't Know'walkthrough14 min
  3. Self-Critique & Revision Loopswalkthrough14 min
  4. Prompt Ensembling & Votingconcept10 min
  5. Order Effects & Debiasingconcept10 min
  6. Testing Prompts Like Codewalkthrough15 min

Module 04 · Structured Output & Production Prompting

Prompts that survive production — strict output contracts, long-context and RAG patterns, agent system prompts, meta-prompting, and versioning.

  1. Output Contracts: JSON, Schemas, Delimiterswalkthrough14 min
  2. Long-Context Promptingconcept10 min
  3. RAG Prompting Patternsconcept11 min
  4. Prompting AI Agentsconcept11 min
  5. Meta-Prompting: AI That Writes Promptswalkthrough14 min
  6. Prompt Versioning & Model Migrationconcept10 min

Module 05 · Image & Multimodal Prompting

Prompt beyond text — generating images with control, steering with negatives and weights, reading images as input, and the voice and video frontier.

  1. Text-to-Image Prompting Basicsconcept10 min
  2. Style Modifiers & Quality Boosterswalkthrough15 min
  3. Negative Prompts & Weighted Termsconcept9 min
  4. Prompting With Images as Inputwalkthrough15 min
  5. Voice, Video & Multimodal Frontiersconcept10 min

Module 06 · Prompt Hacking & Defense

The security layer every builder needs — how prompt injection, jailbreaks, and prompt leaking work, and how to defend your own app in depth.

  1. Prompt Injectionconcept11 min
  2. Jailbreaking: A Taxonomyconcept10 min
  3. Prompt Leaking & System Prompt Extractionconcept9 min
  4. Defense in Depth for LLM Appswalkthrough16 min
  5. Red-Teaming Your Own Appwalkthrough15 min
  6. Capstone: Your Prompt Playbookwalkthrough16 min