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ChatGPT Mastery: Prompt Engineering and RAG with Chat GPT-6
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ChatGPT Mastery: Prompt Engineering and RAG with Chat GPT-6

Practise ChatGPT prompts, source-aware RAG and Langflow workflows, with a GPT-6 reading guide and evaluation workshops.
Last updated 10/2026
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What you'll learn

  • Write ChatGPT prompts with a clear task, relevant context and a useful response format.
  • Explain transformer and NLP concepts behind common conversational AI applications.
  • Follow recorded RAG workflows using Langflow, LM Studio and Gemini examples.
  • Compare generated answers with source evidence to identify unsupported claims.
  • Use the GPT-6 reading guide to plan model choice, prompts, tool boundaries and RAG checks.
  • Distinguish legacy plugin demonstrations from the workflow concepts you can reuse.

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Course content

11 sections • 82 lectures • 4h 6m total length
  • Introduction1:31

    Explore the definition, purpose, and evolution of ChatGPT, and how the transformer core enables human-like text generation.

  • What is a Transformer1:09

    The transformer is a powerful language model that models relationships between words using self-attention and word order, with an encoder and a decoder to process input and produce output.

  • The Transformer with a Simple Example3:01

    Explore how a transformer learns language by tokenizing sentences, representing words as colored tokens, and using attention to respect word order for coherent generation.

  • The Transformer Architecture3:15

    Explore the transformer architecture built on self-attention to capture long-range dependencies, featuring multi-head attention, positional encoding, feed-forward layers, and layer normalization in an encoder-decoder framework.

  • An Example for Transformer Architecture1:35

    Demonstrate how a transformer processes a sentence using self-attention to relate words, encodes their positions, and decodes a representation to translate or answer questions.

  • Applications of ChatGPT1:16

    Discover the wide range of ChatGPT applications, from content generation and summarization to translation, customer support, chat bots, and sentiment analysis, and understand its capabilities and limitations.

  • Evolution of ChatGPT1:45

    Discover how ChatGPT generates contextually relevant text in a conversational style, processing vast textual data. Track its evolution from GPT-1 to GPT-4, reaching about 1 trillion parameters.

  • Understanding the Transformer Architecture of ChatGPT2:36
  • The Transformer Model in ChatGPT: An In-Depth Educational Examples2:37

Requirements

  • You can begin the prompting lessons without an AI qualification. Basic computer skills and confidence working with written instructions are enough for the conceptual sections.
  • For technical RAG walkthroughs, familiarity with installing software, handling files and reading simple API examples will help; these sections require more setup than browser-only prompting.
  • You will need your own access to any ChatGPT, Gemini or other services you choose to use. Availability, account permissions and provider charges are separate from this course.
  • The recordings include earlier models and legacy plugins. The GPT-6 material is a reading guide; use current provider instructions when adapting a demonstration.

Description

Make your ChatGPT prompts more deliberate and your retrieval-augmented generation answers easier to check. This course combines prompt-engineering explanations, language-model concepts and RAG demonstrations with practical reading workshops, including a GPT-6 guide.

Start with instructions, context, response format and common prompting pitfalls. Explore NLP topics such as tokenization, sentiment analysis, named entity recognition and summarization, then examine how retrieval supplies external information to an answer. Demonstrations introduce LangChain, Langflow, LM Studio and Gemini workflows alongside the recorded ChatGPT material.

Work on skills you can evaluate

Describe a task, its constraints and a useful output format.

Compare prompt variations against the same examples.

Organise source documents so answers can be checked against evidence.

Distinguish a retrieval problem from an unsupported claim in the final response.

The final workshops ask you to build a fictional source pack, identify conflicting document versions and test answers claim by claim. The dedicated GPT-6 article covers model choice, outcome-focused prompts, tool boundaries and a study-assistant experiment. GPT-6 coverage is provided in this text lesson; it does not mean the earlier videos have been re-recorded.

Choose this course if you want a structured introduction to prompting and source-aware AI workflows for writing, learning, research or software tasks. Coding familiarity is helpful for integrations. Some videos show earlier interfaces and historical plugin examples, so check current documentation when reproducing them. Model access, external software and provider charges are separate from enrollment. The emphasis is a repeatable way to improve and assess a workflow, rather than collecting prompts whose results you cannot explain.

A course built around better questions and checkable answers

Prompt engineering becomes more useful when it starts with the work you need to complete. A request for a summary, a coding explanation and an answer grounded in documents need different instructions and different checks. The recorded prompting sections explore specificity, context, response length, format and potential pitfalls. You can use those ideas to turn an open-ended request into a task with a recognisable result. The value is in making your intent easier to communicate and your output easier to assess.

Developing prompts with a purpose

The practical examples cover writing, education, research, marketing and programming. Treat those contexts as opportunities to compare decisions, not as a collection of magic phrases. A useful prompt explains what material is available, who the output is for and what constraints matter. It also leaves room to recognise missing information. When you adapt an example to your own task, keep a record of the instruction you changed and the difference you expected. This makes revision more deliberate than repeatedly asking the same question until an answer sounds attractive.

Understanding the language-model background

The transformer and NLP sections provide conceptual context for the prompting work. Topics include attention, positional information, decoding and common language-processing tasks. These explanations help you recognise why an answer can be fluent while still needing verification. The recordings use educational examples associated with earlier ChatGPT models; they should not be interpreted as a complete specification of proprietary systems. You can gain a working vocabulary without claiming to know every internal detail of the model behind an interface.

What retrieval adds to a workflow

The RAG sections examine the idea of bringing relevant source material into an answer-producing process. Instead of relying only on a model's general response, a retrieval workflow selects context that may help with a particular question. The lessons discuss the process, benefits and limitations before moving into recorded tool demonstrations. The important distinction is between supplying information and proving that the answer used it correctly. A retrieved document can be irrelevant, incomplete or misunderstood, so retrieval introduces its own questions as well as solving some context problems.

Following the recorded implementations

Langflow, LM Studio and Gemini appear in the implementation material. These walkthroughs provide concrete examples of a development environment and a retrieval-oriented workflow. Software versions, dependencies and provider access may differ when you reproduce the steps. Work through a small example before adding more documents or more components. If something fails, distinguish an installation issue, a retrieval issue and an answer-quality issue. Those are different problems, and recognising the difference can make your investigation much more focused.

Using the source workshops

The source-pack article and evaluation workshop connect retrieval with evidence. You can identify which document supports an answer, which passage is relevant and which claim remains unsupported. A strong exercise includes a question the source cannot answer, because that reveals whether the workflow acknowledges a limit. Keep the question, selected context and generated response together. This creates a useful comparison when you change a prompt or retrieval setting, and it prevents a polished response from hiding a weak connection with its source.

How the GPT-6 reading guide fits

The GPT-6 update is a text guide within the reading material. It extends the discussion to model choice, prompts, tools and RAG decisions; it is not a replacement recording of every earlier demonstration. Use it to ask what the task requires, what information a system may use and which actions need clear boundaries. Availability and capabilities should be checked in the provider's current documentation. The durable skill is choosing and evaluating a workflow according to its purpose, rather than assuming that a newer model removes the need for careful instructions.

A clear boundary around legacy plugins

Several recorded sections discuss the earlier ChatGPT plugin ecosystem, including conceptual and coding case studies. They remain part of the listed curriculum and offer examples of integration reasoning. Do not interpret them as a promise that those exact interfaces are available in your account. When adapting an older example, identify the underlying input, service interaction and expected result before choosing a supported implementation. This lets you learn from the case study while separating historical interface details from the broader design problem.

Who will get the most from the course

Choose this course if you want a broad introduction that connects prompting, model concepts, source-grounded answers and evaluation. Browser-only learners can begin with prompt structure and use cases; technically confident learners can continue into the tool walkthroughs. Progress is best judged by whether you can explain why an answer meets a task, which evidence supports it and what remains uncertain. That is a more useful outcome than collecting impressive-looking responses without knowing how to check them.

Curriculum at a glance

Prompt engineering techniques: context, clarity and response structure

Introductory transformer architecture explanations

NLP fundamentals and language-processing examples

RAG: supplying retrieved source context for a response

RAG in Action: Step-by-Step Implementation Guide

Applied prompts for writing, education, research and coding

Legacy ChatGPT plugin concepts and integration case studies

Legacy plugin coding case studies

Recorded model-evolution material through GPT-5, plus the GPT-6 reading guide

Who this course is for:

  • You use ChatGPT for writing, research, teaching or business tasks and want prompts that specify the task, context and output clearly.
  • You are a developer or technically curious learner who wants to follow introductory RAG workflows with Langflow, LM Studio and source documents.
  • You work with document-based answers and want a practical way to compare generated claims with the evidence in a source pack.
  • You already know basic prompting and want structured exercises on evaluation, tool boundaries and the decisions discussed in the GPT-6 reading guide.