Guide

Prompt engineering overview (Claude docs)

Anthropic · platform.claude.com

Anthropic's starting page for prompting, ordered from the most to the least effective techniques.

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It answers 3 questions

  1. What are the 5 prompting techniques worth learning (and the ones that are outdated)?
  2. How do I write research prompts that get consistently better answers?
  3. Prompt engineering, RAG, or fine-tuning: which one does my product actually need?

Read with it

  1. Nine hands-on chapters that take you from novice to competent prompter in a weekend. github.com Course Anthropic's Interactive Prompt Engineering Tutorial Anthropic
  2. Updated best practices that transfer well to every frontier model, not just Claude. platform.claude.com Guide Claude prompting best practices Anthropic
  3. A PM-friendly decision guide with real cost and time estimates for each rung of the ladder. news.aakashg.com Article RAG vs Fine-tuning vs Prompt Engineering: The Complete Guide Aakash Gupta (Product Growth)
  4. A neutral, definition-first explainer you can hand to any teammate. ibm.com Article RAG vs fine-tuning vs prompt engineering IBM
  5. The lab's own framing of the successor skill to prompting: keep context informative yet tight. anthropic.com Article Effective context engineering for AI agents Anthropic
  6. The complementary view from the biggest orchestration framework, with concrete patterns. langchain.com Article Context Engineering for Agents LangChain
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