Prompt & Context Engineering
Structured Output
Making a probabilistic system return parseable data.
You can jump straight in, but this star assumes Prompt Engineering. Not recommended as a first stop.
Four layers of depth
Each layer ends with a quiz. Finish layer 4 and you own this concept.
- L1IntuitionWhat structured output is, why it matters for building real software on top of LLMs, and the buzzwords decoded.5m
40 XP - L2MechanicsThe mechanics: schema-guided generation, validation-and-retry loops, and how constrained decoding actually enforces validity.8m
70 XP - L3CodeImplement schema-guided extraction with a typed model, plus a validation-and-repair loop.12m
110 XP - L4FoundationsThe formal layer: grammars as finite-state constraints on decoding, and the token-masking math that enforces them.15m
180 XP
33 stars in the atlas.