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Krish Naik · 45 min · intermediate · English

Latitude · 6 min · intermediate · English

codebasics · 25 min · intermediate · English

Amit Shekhar · 60 min · intermediate · English
Walks through the applied building blocks (RAG, agents, MCP, evaluation) you must reason about live in a prompt-system design / debugging round.

testRigor · 11 min · intermediate · English
Actual prompt-engineering interview questions to drill answers under interview framing.

Krish Naik · 18 min · intermediate · English
Trade-offs talking points: prompt engineering vs RAG vs fine-tuning, explained simply.

Tina Huang · 20 min · intermediate · English
Compressed prompting fundamentals to rehearse core concepts out loud for interviews.

freeCodeCamp.org · 55 min · beginner · English
Maps the AI/prompt-engineering career path: which skills and roles (LLMs, RAG, fine-tuning, evaluation) teams hire for and how to get there.

asapfrontend · 11 min · beginner · English
How to package a project into a recruiter-ready case study: live demo, clean repo, and a write-up of the problem, decisions, and results.

LangChain · 9 min · intermediate · English
Official walkthrough of storing, versioning, and reusing prompts via LangSmith Prompt Hub/Playground — packaging prompts as a documented, versioned library.

Krish Naik · 30 min · intermediate · English
End-to-end build of a portfolio-grade LLM feature grounded in a real database.
Promptfoo · 14 min · intermediate · English
Hands-on promptfoo walkthrough: install, run your first red-team scan, and read the results to find prompt failures.
IBM Technology · 10 min · intermediate · English
Hardening system prompts and layering input/output guardrails and defense-in-depth against injection.
Microsoft Developer · 7 min · intermediate · English
Optional different angle: distinguishes direct vs indirect injection with a Microsoft AI Red Team walkthrough.
IBM Technology · 11 min · beginner · English
Clear primer on prompt injection — why LLMs can't separate instructions from data; the #1 OWASP LLM risk.
Comet · 18 min · intermediate · English
Using a model to grade outputs at scale for meaning, grounding, and style with a defined rubric.
echohive · 22 min · intermediate · English
Hands-on promptfoo: declarative configs, assertions, and side-by-side prompt/model comparison for regression testing.
Cole Medin · 25 min · beginner · English
Optional different angle: a fast, hands-on intro to replacing eyeballing with real evals.
Dave Ebbelaar · 34 min · intermediate · English
Why moving from vibe checks to systematic, repeatable evals separates production AI from prototypes.
Tech With Tim · 30 min · intermediate · English
Optional hands-on: building/connecting an MCP server so an agent can actually use the tools.
Fireship · 9 min · beginner · English
Fast, popular explainer of what MCP is and why it standardizes connecting agents to tools and data.
Data Centric · 24 min · intermediate · English
Builds a ReAct Thought -> Action -> Observation loop in plain Python so the pattern is fully transparent.
Underfitted · 20 min · beginner · English
Optional hands-on: wiring OpenAI function calling to Python functions with valid JSON arguments.
IBM Technology · 12 min · intermediate · English
How LLMs translate natural language into structured tool/function calls against real APIs.

AI Coffee Break with Letitia · 10 min · intermediate · English
Walks through the Liu et al. paper showing U-shaped attention — models favor the start/end and under-attend the middle of long context.

Krish Naik · 36 min · intermediate · English
Optional hands-on angle: building the prompt by injecting retrieved chunks + question into a RAG prompt template with LangChain.

IBM Technology · 7 min · beginner · English
Marina Danilevsky's canonical explainer: how retrieved documents are injected into the prompt to ground answers and cite sources.

IBM Technology · 11 min · intermediate · English
Martin Keen frames prompt engineering as a subset of context engineering — designing everything the model sees (RAG, memory, agents).

DAIMTO Developer Tips · 8 min · intermediate · English
Concrete format-constraint demo: force the model to emit a specific shape (CSV).

Engineers Compass · 13 min · intermediate · English
Structuring prompts and format constraints to steer consistent, exact output shape.

NetworkChuck · 24 min · intermediate · English
Popular, high-quality walkthrough of structuring prompts with delimiters and tags to keep instructions and data separate.

Tim Warner · 14 min · intermediate · English
Hands-on use of XML tags and delimiters to cleanly separate instructions, context, and data into reusable templates.

ML Conference · 41 min · intermediate · English
Optional deeper talk (MLcon) on JSON-schema enforcement and reliable structured outputs in real integrations.

Coding with Lewis · 14 min · intermediate · English
Hands-on OpenAI Structured Outputs with a JSON schema so every response parses cleanly.

QWE AI Academy · 22 min · intermediate · English
Optional different angle — system vs user message roles via the OpenAI API with concrete examples.

Anthropic · 24 min · intermediate · English
Anthropic's own walkthrough of structuring prompts: system role, identity, rules and guardrails that persist across a conversation.

DeepLearningAI · 4 min · intermediate · English
Official DeepLearning.AI / OpenAI overview (taught by Colin Jarvis) on how o1 reasons internally and the simple-and-direct prompting principles that differ from standard CoT.

Packt · 9 min · intermediate · English
Explains self-consistency: sampling the same CoT prompt multiple times and taking the majority answer to cut one-off reasoning errors.

Analytics Vidhya · 12 min · intermediate · English
Step-by-step walkthrough of CoT prompting and how 'think step by step' lifts accuracy on multi-step reasoning.

Engineering Academy Online · 13 min · intermediate · English
Step-by-step iterative prompting: systematically refine and debug a prompt across successive attempts.

AI Foundations · 14 min · beginner · English
How to assign roles/personas ('You are a...') to shift model behavior.

Adrian Twarog · 13 min · beginner · English
Focused explainer contrasting zero-shot vs few-shot (in-context learning) with examples.

freeCodeCamp.org · 41 min · beginner · English
Full course; covers zero-shot prompting and writing clear instructions/best practices.

Anthropic · 25 min · beginner · English
Anthropic's official walkthrough of prompt structure: role, instructions, context, examples, and constraints.

Matt Williams · 13 min · beginner · English
Walks through temperature, top-k, top-p and friends — how each one shapes determinism vs creativity.

Analytics Vidhya · 9 min · beginner · English
Short beginner explainer on what tokens are and why they drive cost and context limits.

Matt Pocock · 11 min · beginner · English
Practical reasoning about how tokenization drives context limits and prompt cost.

3Blue1Brown · 27 min · beginner · English
Optional visual angle on the predict-sample-repeat loop behind every prompt.
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Andrej Karpathy · 60 min · beginner · English
The canonical mental model: an LLM is a next-token predictor, not a database lookup.