How to write prompts like a pro

Duration: 45 min

Module goals

• Explain why a prompt without context gives a random result: the model fills in what’s missing with typical values
• Assemble a prompt from the parts “role, task, inputs, expected output, constraints” and assign a prompt fragment to the right part
• Match a problem in the answer with the phrase that fixes it, and tell it apart from techniques that don’t work (politeness, pressure, repeating unchanged)
• Recognize a prompting sin (context rot, lost in the middle, distractors, mixing context and prompt, aggressive tone) and choose the correction
• Choose an approach for a recurring task (meta-prompting, the reusable-assistant template) and explain why automation comes only after you can write and verify the task

Units

My worst prompt

The spec formula

Magic words

The sins of prompting

A professional prompt

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checked against the course: 2026-11-02 · 664b147