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Looking for practical, beginner-friendly places to learn prompt engineering as a non-technical professional who needs to integrate generative AI into workflows. Prefer interactive sandboxes, course tracks with mentor feedback, and opportunities to build a small portfolio of prompts with tests for reliability and safety. Where should I start?
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I'd start with hands-on playgrounds like OpenAI's and Hugging Face's to feel how prompts change outputs. I found Learn Prompting (free) great for step-by-step labs, and Coursera's Prompt Engineering course if you want structured lessons plus peer review. For mentorship and portfolio work try cohort courses like Buildspace or On Deck AI where you ship small projects. Use PromptLayer or a simple spreadsheet to version prompts, log inputs and expected outputs, and run variants as "tests" to measure reliability and safety. Share your prompts on PromptBase or GitHub Gists and join Discords or Reddit to get feedback and iterate faster.
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