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Advanced Prompt Engineering for Claude

Prompts that work in chat often fail in production. Prompt Engineering for Claude will teach you advanced prompt engineering techniques for building reliable, cost-efficient Claude API applications.

Intermediate
1h 1m

Created by Russ Thomas

Last Updated Jun 09, 2026

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Advanced Prompt Engineering for Claude

Prompts that work in chat often fail in production. Prompt Engineering for Claude will teach you advanced prompt engineering techniques for building reliable, cost-efficient Claude API applications.

Intermediate
1h 1m

Created by Russ Thomas

Last Updated Jun 09, 2026

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What you'll learn

Poorly designed prompts are a quiet but serious problem of production AI applications - causing unpredictable outputs, bloated costs, and brittle integrations that break under real-world conditions.

In this course, Advanced Prompt Engineering for Claude, you'll gain the ability to design, structure, and optimize prompts that power reliable, cost-efficient, production-grade applications.

First, you'll explore how to craft prompts that drive consistent, reproducible behavior across the Claude API, including how system prompts, user prompts, and assistant prefills interact.

Next, you'll discover how to generate and validate structured outputs, and how to design cache-aware prompts that minimize token costs at scale.

Finally, you'll learn how to manage stateful, multi-turn conversations within token limits and when and how to apply few-shot examples to maximize reliability.

When you're finished with this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge of advanced prompt engineering needed to build Claude-powered applications that are predictable, maintainable, and production-ready.

Advanced Prompt Engineering for Claude
Intermediate
1h 1m
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Russ Thomas - Pluralsight course - Advanced Prompt Engineering for Claude
Russ Thomas
33 courses 4.6 author rating 845 ratings

Currently an IT leader in Denver Colorado's financial sector Russ has focused on database development, modelling, administration, and BI since 1997 across the Microsoft stack. Russ is a passionate trainer and SQL community volunteer presenting regularly at PASS SQL Saturday events and local user groups around the US.

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