Prompting Fundamentals

The chapters in this module, in reading order.

#	Chapter
00	Prompt Engineering — The Five-Year-Old Version
01	Why prompts matter — same brain, different brief
02	System prompt anatomy — the standing rules that shape everything
03	Few-shot placement — where examples teach fastest
04	Negative examples — show the cliff, not only the road
05	Chain-of-thought — when step-by-step helps, and when it hurts
06	Structured output — make the reply machine-usable
07	Temperature and sampling — the creativity dial is real
08	Prompt chaining — break one hard brief into smaller jobs
09	Prompt versioning — treat prompts like code, not folklore
10	A/B testing prompts — measure behavior, not vibes
11	Prompt debugging — stop guessing why the model did that
12	Prompt security — defend the instruction stack from hostile text
13	Honest admission — prompt engineering still has sharp unknowns