Advanced Prompt Engineering for Production AI Agents

Experienced software engineers, AI practitioners, technical team leads with 3+ years experience · en · 12 classes · 37 LOs · 0.0 min

Foundations for Production: Trust Boundaries and Reasoning Scaffolds

• 🎬 The Trust Boundary: Separating Data from Instructions9 slides · 0.0 min · LO LO-S1-1, LO-S1-2, LO-S1-3
• 🎬 Reasoning Scaffolds: Beyond Naive Chain-of-Thought13 slides · 0.0 min · LO LO-S1-4, LO-S1-5, LO-S1-6
• 🎬 Few-Shot Prompting as Behavior Specification9 slides · 0.0 min · LO LO-S1-7, LO-S1-8, LO-S1-9
• 📝 Section quiz (9 items)

Structured Outputs and Reliability Engineering

• 🎬 Structured Output: JSON, XML, and Schema-Constrained Decoding20 slides · 0.0 min · LO LO-S2-1, LO-S2-2, LO-S2-3
• 🎬 Designing Output Contracts and Validation Loops9 slides · 0.0 min · LO LO-S2-4, LO-S2-5, LO-S2-6
• 🎬 Hallucination Mitigation: A Layered Defense13 slides · 0.0 min · LO LO-S2-7, LO-S2-8, LO-S2-9
• 📝 Section quiz (8 items)

Agentic Patterns: Tool Use and Prompt Chaining

• 🎬 Tool Use and Function Calling Patterns8 slides · 0.0 min · LO LO-S3-1, LO-S3-2, LO-S3-3
• 🎬 Prompt Chaining and Multi-Step Pipelines8 slides · 0.0 min · LO LO-S3-4, LO-S3-5, LO-S3-6
• 🎬 Agent Loops: Stopping, Looping, and Budget Control8 slides · 0.0 min · LO LO-S3-7, LO-S3-8, LO-S3-9
• 📝 Section quiz (9 items)

RAG Integration, Failure Modes, and Production Operations

• 🎬 RAG Prompt Design: Grounding Without Drowning7 slides · 0.0 min · LO LO-S4-1, LO-S4-2, LO-S4-3, LO-S4-4
• 🎬 Failure Mode Analysis and Adversarial Evaluation7 slides · 0.0 min · LO LO-S4-5, LO-S4-6, LO-S4-7
• 🎬 Prompt Ops: Versioning, Evaluation, and Model Migration8 slides · 0.0 min · LO LO-S4-8, LO-S4-9, LO-S4-10
• 📝 Section quiz (8 items)