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Chapter 5 of 23 · Level 2 · Communicating with Models

Prompt Engineering

Message roles, few-shot examples, chain of thought, and decomposing a job into reusable prompts.

  1. 5.1

    Prompt Engineering Is Software Engineering

    Prompt engineering looks like writing to a chatbot. The moment your code has to parse the reply, it becomes software engineering: system prompts, JSON Schema, function calling, and retry loops.

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