AI & Prompt Engineering — Craft That Ships

By the end

What you'll build

• Write prompts that get reliable, high-quality answers from any AI
• Ground AI answers in real documents so they cite instead of invent
• Build guardrailed AI agents that resist prompt-injection
• Prove your prompts work with eval suites and pass-rates
• Ship a portfolio capstone and a recruiter-ready X-to-Y story

Curriculum

What's inside

12 modules · 80 lessons

1. 01

   Foundations — How AI Really Works

   6 lessons
   • What AI Is Actually Doing
   • Why It Confidently Makes Things Up
   • The Two Dials — Imagination and Memory
   • Check Your UnderstandingTry itquiz
   • AI Terms — Flip & Learnflashcard sr
   • + 1 more lesson
2. 02

   The Anatomy of a World-Class Prompt

   9 lessons
   • Why Prompts Fail
   • The Six Levers
   • Diagnose This Promptquiz
   • Your First Rewriteprompt lab
   • Give it a Roleprompt lab
   • + 4 more lessons
3. 03

   The Thinking Toolkit — Reasoning & Advanced Techniques

   7 lessons
   • Your Technique Map
   • Make It Show Its Workingprompt lab
   • Teach by Exampleprompt lab
   • Break the Big Job Downprompt lab
   • Ask It to Grade Itselfprompt lab
   • + 2 more lessons
4. 04

   Craft That Ships

   6 lessons
   • Read the Rubric Like Anaya
   • Craft That Shipsprompt lab
   • Cold Email to a Named Buyerprompt lab
   • LinkedIn Post From a Rough Ideaprompt lab
   • Plain-English Summary for a Named Readerprompt lab
   • + 1 more lesson
5. 05

   Beyond Text — Multimodal & Everyday Superpowers

   9 lessons
   • Prompting With Pictures and Documents
   • Read This Receiptprompt lab
   • Your Coding Copilotprompt lab
   • Just Enough Python to Test Prompts
   • Tools of the Trade
   • + 4 more lessons
6. 06

   Context Engineering & Retrieval

   5 lessons
   • Context Is a Budget
   • Build a Retrieval Promptprompt lab
   • Cite Your Sourcesprompt lab
   • Refuse When Unknownprompt lab
   • Multi-doc Synthesisprompt lab
7. 07

   Few-Shot, Format-Forcing & Guardrails

   5 lessons
   • Show, Do Not Tell
   • Force the Formatprompt lab
   • Few-Shot Support Ticket Classifierprompt lab
   • Extract Messy Paragraph to a Tableprompt lab
   • Force a Nested Invoice JSON Schemaprompt lab
8. 08

   Agents, Tools & Workflows

   5 lessons
   • Anatomy of an Agent
   • Build an Agent That Holds the Lineprompt lab
   • The Research Agentprompt lab
   • Least Privilegeprompt lab
   • Injection Defenseprompt lab
9. 09

   Choose Your Model & Stay Safe

   7 lessons
   • Which AI Should You Use?
   • Prompt, RAG, or Fine-Tune?
   • Pick the Right Toolquiz
   • How Prompts Get Attacked
   • Red-Team Your Own Promptprompt lab
   • + 2 more lessons
10. 10

    Evaluation, Cost & Shipping

    8 lessons
    • Write an Eval, Not a Vibe
    • Cost & Latency Math
    • Ship to Production
    • Write the Evalprompt lab
    • Cut the Costprompt lab
    • + 3 more lessons
11. 11

    Get Hired — Your Prompt Engineering Career

    7 lessons
    • What the Job Actually Is
    • The Portfolio That Gets You Hired
    • Turn a Business Ask Into a Prompt Specprompt lab
    • Write Your X-to-Y Case Studyprompt lab
    • The Skills Assessmentprompt lab
    • + 2 more lessons
12. 12

    Capstone — The Prompt Architect Brief

    6 lessons
    • The Brief
    • Deliverable 1 — The Core Promptprompt lab
    • Deliverable 2 — Wrap It in a Guardrailed Agentprompt lab
    • Deliverable 3 — Force the Contractprompt lab
    • Deliverable 4 — Prove It With an Evalprompt lab
    • + 1 more lesson

The shape of it

How this course works