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What is Prompt Engineering?
Prompt engineering is the skill of writing clear, well-structured instructions that get reliable, high-quality results from an AI model.
Good prompts give the model context, a clear task, constraints and a desired format. Done well, prompting is the difference between a generic answer and a genuinely useful one.
It's the single highest-leverage AI skill for most professionals, which is why hands-on prompting is core to every kenai workshop and bootcamp.
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A Large Language Model (LLM) is an AI system trained on vast amounts of text to understand and generate human language, powering tools like Claude and ChatGPT.
Generative AI (GenAI) →
Generative AI is AI that creates new content — text, images, code, audio or video — rather than only analysing existing data.
Context Window →
A context window is the maximum amount of text an AI model can consider at once — its short-term memory for a given conversation or task.
AI Agent →
An AI agent is an AI system that can take actions to achieve a goal — using tools, calling other systems and working through multi-step tasks with limited human input.