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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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Curriculum structure
01Prompting Foundations6 lessons02Reasoning Techniques6 lessons03Reliability & Truthfulness6 lessons04Structured Output & Production Prompting6 lessons05Image & Multimodal Prompting5 lessons06Prompt Hacking & Defense6 lessons

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 Isquizconcept9 min
  2. Anatomy of a Promptquizconcept10 min
  3. Instructions & Constraintsquizwalkthrough14 min
  4. Role Promptingquizconcept9 min
  5. Zero-Shot, One-Shot, Few-Shotquizwalkthrough14 min
  6. Combining the Basicsquizsandbox16 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 Promptingvideoquizconcept10 min
  2. Zero-Shot CoT & Step-by-Step Triggersquizwalkthrough13 min
  3. Self-Consistencyquizconcept9 min
  4. Decomposition: Least-to-Most & Subproblemsquizwalkthrough14 min
  5. Generated Knowledge & Prompt Primingquizconcept10 min
  6. Reasoning Models vs CoT Promptsquizconcept11 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 Hallucinatequizconcept10 min
  2. Calibration: Getting 'I Don't Know'quizwalkthrough14 min
  3. Self-Critique & Revision Loopsquizwalkthrough14 min
  4. Prompt Ensembling & Votingquizconcept10 min
  5. Order Effects & Debiasingquizconcept10 min
  6. Testing Prompts Like Codequizwalkthrough15 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, Delimitersquizwalkthrough14 min
  2. Long-Context Promptingquizconcept10 min
  3. RAG Prompting Patternsquizconcept11 min
  4. Prompting AI Agentsquizconcept11 min
  5. Meta-Prompting: AI That Writes Promptsquizwalkthrough14 min
  6. Prompt Versioning & Model Migrationquizconcept10 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 Basicsquizconcept10 min
  2. Style Modifiers & Quality Boostersquizwalkthrough15 min
  3. Negative Prompts & Weighted Termsquizconcept9 min
  4. Prompting With Images as Inputquizwalkthrough15 min
  5. Voice, Video & Multimodal Frontiersquizconcept10 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 Injectionquizconcept11 min
  2. Jailbreaking: A Taxonomyquizconcept10 min
  3. Prompt Leaking & System Prompt Extractionquizconcept9 min
  4. Defense in Depth for LLM Appsquizwalkthrough16 min
  5. Red-Teaming Your Own Appquizwalkthrough15 min
  6. Capstone: Your Prompt Playbookquizwalkthrough16 min