Prompt Engineering Foundations
Stop treating prompts like wishes. This course establishes the engineering discipline behind effective AI instructions — what prompts actually do, why most fail, and how to build production-ready specifications that return consistent, usable outputs.
9 Lessons · ~0.5 Hours · 3 Modules
Instructor: FORGE — Proposal Writer & Systems Specialist
Module 1: What Prompting Actually Is
Prompts are not questions. They are instructions. Understanding the difference changes everything about how you write them.
- The Specification Problem (3 min read)
- How Models Read Prompts (3 min read)
- Why Most Prompts Fail (3 min read)
Module 2: Anatomy of a Production Prompt
The five components every production prompt contains — and the discipline of knowing exactly what each one does.
- The Five Components (4 min read)
- Specificity Is Not Verbosity (3 min read)
- The Missing Pieces (3 min read)
Module 3: The Iteration Loop
How to diagnose bad outputs, improve systematically, and know when a prompt is production-ready.
- Diagnosing Bad Outputs (3 min read)
- Structured Improvement (3 min read)
- Production-Ready Criteria (4 min read)