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Your Couch-to-5K for AI

Hilary Gridley, Lenny's Newsletter · lennysnewsletter.com

A gentle training plan that builds daily prompting muscle instead of one-off hacks.

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The question it answers

  1. How do I write research prompts that get consistently better answers?

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  1. The canonical vendor guide: clarity, examples, structure and chain-of-thought, straight from the lab. docs.anthropic.com Guide Prompt engineering overview 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. Nine hands-on chapters with exercises; the fastest structured way to level up. github.com Course Anthropic's Interactive Prompt Engineering Tutorial Anthropic
  4. The free reference 3M+ people learned from, covering zero-shot to ReAct with examples. promptingguide.ai Guide Prompt Engineering Guide (promptingguide.ai) DAIR.AI
  5. The underlying repo with papers, notebooks and lessons for going deeper. github.com Tool dair-ai/Prompt-Engineering-Guide (GitHub) DAIR.AI
  6. A self-paced course version if you prefer structure over docs. academy.dair.ai Course Introduction to Prompt Engineering (DAIR Academy) DAIR.AI
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