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Prompt Engineering Workflows

Design, test and maintain prompts that produce reliable results across real business tasks.

Kurt Walker4.8(674)5.2K learners9 hoursIntermediate

Overview

Move beyond one-off prompts to systems you can rely on. Learn structured prompting patterns, few-shot examples, output formatting, chaining, evaluation sets and version control for prompts. By the end you will have a tested prompt library for a use case of your choice.

Prompt EngineeringLLMsEvaluationAutomationWorkflows
Level
Intermediate
Language
English
Updated
Sep 2026
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2 lessons

What you'll learn

  • Write structured prompts with clear role, context, task and constraints
  • Use examples, step-by-step reasoning and formatting to shape outputs
  • Chain prompts into multi-step workflows
  • Create evaluation sets and measure prompt quality objectively
  • Document and version prompts for team reuse

Curriculum

4 modules · 16 lessons · 9h total

The ingredients of a dependable prompt.

  • Role, Context, Task and ConstraintsFree preview39m
  • Giving Examples: Zero, One and Few ShotFree preview56m
  • Controlling Format and Tone26m

Requirements

  • Regular use of an AI assistant
  • Familiarity with basic spreadsheets or JSON is helpful
  • A concrete task or dataset to build a prompt library for

Skills you'll build

Completing this course raises these proficiencies in your skill profile.

Prompt EngineeringML Foundations
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Your instructor

Kurt Walker

Applied AI Engineer, Hikari Systems

Kurt builds AI-assisted workflows for operations, support and research teams. He focuses on what works reliably in a real workplace: clear instructions, sensible guardrails and honest evaluation, rather than hype.

4.7 instructor rating14K learners2 courses
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Rashed Khan

Product Operations Manager

Sep 11, 2026

The evaluation module is what separates this from the dozens of prompt tip lists. We now test every prompt before rollout.

Amelia Fox

Customer Support Lead

Aug 2, 2026

Built a support-reply workflow in a week. Kurt's guardrails advice prevented several embarrassing outputs.

Sazzad Hossain

Software Developer

Jul 18, 2026

Practical and structured. Would like a deeper look at retrieval, but it is an introduction after all.

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