Prompt Pro

How to Prompt Like a Pro: Master AI for Business Innovation

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An **O'Reilly Live Learning** course teaching business professionals how to extract maximum value from AI tools like Microsoft 365 Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, and Google Gemini.

*Last updated: April 2026*

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Course Segments

#	Segment	Duration	Key Topics
1	**Identity, Mindset & Context Foundations**	50 min	Pilot/copilot, anchor trap, prompt smell, context disclosure, inference
2	**Context Sculpting & Prompting Technique**	50 min	Role-play, task decomposition, few-shot, chain-of-thought, meta-prompting
3	**Workflow, Multimodal & Security**	50 min	Custom instructions, prompt versioning, voice, cross-referencing, privacy
4	**Agentic Orchestration & Resilience**	50 min	LLM matching, subagents, checkpoints, MCP, Copilot Studio, breaking changes

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Warner's Laws of Generative AI Prompting

1. You are the pilot; the AI is your co-pilot. You're responsible for its actions.
2. Always know who you're signed in as and who you're chatting with.
3. Beware the anchor trap — draft before you prompt.
4. Trust your gut — never hesitate to second-guess the AI.
5. Every AI chat has its own lifecycle; develop your "prompt smell."
6. The more y