ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers
by DeepLearning.AI + OpenAI
This short course from DeepLearning.AI and OpenAI teaches you how to write prompts that reliably get the output you need from ChatGPT and other AI tools. Despite the 'for Developers' in the name, most of the techniques apply directly to anyone using AI at work — writing better briefs, summarising documents, drafting emails, or automating text tasks. It is one of the highest-rated AI courses available, and you can finish it in a single afternoon for free.
What you will learn
- The difference between good and bad AI prompts — and exactly why it matters
- How to write prompts that give you consistent, predictable results
- Techniques for summarisation, classification, and data extraction using AI
- How to build multi-step prompts for complex tasks that need several steps
- The most common prompting mistakes and how to fix them immediately
Who is this for
- Anyone who uses ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini at work and wants better results
- Writers, marketers, and content creators using AI in their daily workflow
- Finance, legal, and HR professionals who summarise and process documents
- People who finished a beginner AI course and want immediate practical skills
Why we recommend it
- 1Completely free — no Coursera subscription or payment needed
- 2Done in 1.5 hours — the fastest high-value AI course on this list
- 3Co-created with OpenAI, the company that built ChatGPT
- 4Techniques work across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and other AI tools
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