The Pragmatic Prompt Engineer
by FreeLibrary.ai
The strategic companion to hands-on prompt engineering courses. Learn the mental models, evaluation frameworks, cost strategies, safety practices, and professional workflows that separate competent prompters from exceptional ones.
18 chapters
Chapters (18)
- 1.Why This Book Exists
- 2.How LLMs Actually Process Your Words
- 3.The Token Economy
- 4.Mental Models for Prompt Design
- 5.The Cost of Ambiguity
- 6.Evaluating Prompt Quality
- 7.Testing Prompts Systematically
- 8.Debugging When Prompts Fail
- 9.Cross-Model Prompting Strategies
- 10.Prompt Versioning and Management
- 11.Prompts in Production
- 12.Cost Optimization Strategies
- 13.Safety, Guardrails, and Responsible Prompting
- 14.The Business Case for Prompt Engineering
- 15.Building a Prompt Engineering Culture
- 16.The Evolving Landscape
- 17.A Prompt Engineering Checklist
- 18.Further Reading and Resources