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Prompt Engineering · Unit 4 of 5
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⚡ Activation
💭 in your head · nothing to type

Picture a witness in a courtroom delivering a confession: "Yes, I gave too little context. Yes, I buried the critical instruction in the middle. Yes, I dropped three old file versions into the context window."

Run it in your head: you're that witness right now. Picture a moment when Claude started forgetting early details mid-conversation, or answered confidently but wide of the mark. Which of the prompting sins are you ready to confess? Hold it — no self-judgment, just the facts of the case.

Guess before the explanation

Getting it wrong is fine: it is part of learning. Guessing first helps the answer stick later, and the answer itself comes after the explanation.

A long prompt opens with an intro, has the main requirement in the middle and a conclusion at the end. The model ignores the requirement. Which correction does the unit give?
Learn with AI

Copy your personal prompt and paste it into your agent's learn mode — it picks up your context and takes you forward.

Honestly: with AI it feels like you can do more than you can without it. After practice, check yourself without AI. (Bastani et al., PNAS 2025)

Explains the material using the course method.

ChatGPT →Claude →Gemini →Copilot →