AI Follows Instructions
Instructional engineering is about designing model behavior explicitly, not casually chatting with an AI.
Lesson Library
Browse the lesson library and open the public lessons that are available now.
What Is a Prompt?
A prompt is the instruction structure that defines the model's task and expected behavior.
Templates & Runtime Inputs
Templates separate reusable instructions from runtime data.
Context Is Not Memory
The model only knows the context you provide during each run.
Prompt Iteration & Failure Modes
Prompting is an iterative engineering process based on observing and refining behavior.
What Is an LLM?
An LLM generates outputs by predicting likely continuations of text.
Models, Tokens, and Cost
Different models create different tradeoffs in quality, speed, context size, and cost.
Precision Engineering
Precise constraints reduce ambiguity and increase behavioral consistency.
Output Shaping
Output structure determines how reliably systems can use model results.
Role Assignment
Assigning roles changes the model's perspective, tone, and depth of explanation.
Delimiters & Boundary Control
Delimiters separate instructions from runtime data and reduce ambiguity.
Negative Constraints
Negative constraints suppress unwanted default model behaviors.