Mastering Prompt Engineering Mastering Prompt Engineering: A Beginner’s Guide to Using LLMs Effectively In the ever-evolving world of artificial intelligence, learning how to communicate effectively with large language models (LLMs) has become a critical skill. Whether you're using GitHub Copilot or another LLM tool like OpenAI’s GPT, Google’s Gemini, or Anthropic’s Claude, the way you craft your prompt can dramatically impact the quality of the output. Welcome to your crash course in prompt engineering — the art of speaking AI's language. What Is a Large Language Model (LLM)? At the core, an LLM is a powerful AI model trained on massive datasets of text. It doesn’t "understand" language the way humans do. Instead, it predicts the next word in a sentence based on patterns it has seen during training. Think of it as an ultra-intelligent autocomplete system. Before we dive into prompt engineering, you should understand three foundational ele...