In this age of AI, prompt engineering is now one of the most sought-after tech skills, particularly when using powerful chatbots like Anthropic's Claude . While it sounds as easy as a question typed out, creating an effective prompt is an art form that needs to be clear, structured, and purposeful.
Anthropic, the company behind Claude, has published an in-depth Prompt Engineering Overview to assist users in honing their prompting capabilities and gaining the most precise, useful responses from AI.
Getting Into Claude's Mindset
Before typing a single word, Anthropic urges users to change their mental model. Claude, they say, should be viewed as "a brilliant but very new employee with amnesia." It's smart, fast, and capable, but it forgets everything between sessions and follows instruc