Finishing the course

Your final assignment

Create a reusable brief with acceptance checks and a small test set. Use the fictional examples from this course, or a non-sensitive scenario you are authorised to work on. Do not submit personal workplace records to complete the course.

Build your evidence pack

1. Turn a vague request into an acceptance test: Rewrite “make this update better” using the outage facts above. Include two factual checks and one reader-action check. Then write a deliberately failing example.
2. Few-shot examples and counterexamples: Write two urgent and two routine fictional messages. Make one routine message sound dramatic and one urgent message sound calm. Add a fifth unseen test message.
3. Structured output is only the first check: Define fields for a purchase request and three permitted approval states. Create one malformed response and one well-formed response with a false approval. Explain which check catches each.
4. Decompose a task without multiplying mistakes: Draw a three-stage process for comparing two quotes. At each boundary write one check and describe what happens when it fails.
5. Version prompts and keep a regression set: Create a six-case regression set for the outage notice prompt. Include an unknown cause, an absent update time and a request to invent a recovery estimate.

Combine the five outputs in the downloadable course workbook. Write a short decision note explaining the problem, your chosen approach, the evidence used and one limitation that would matter in real use. Keep initial and revised versions where a check changed your answer.

Review against these criteria

• Describe success before asking for a draft.
• Use examples to teach boundaries as well as style.
• Distinguish valid shape from correct content.
• Put checks between dependent stages.
• Improve a prompt without losing behaviour that already works.

Ask a colleague or learning partner to challenge one assumption if available. If working alone, use the worked examples to review your reasoning and record the limits of that self-review. Completion is a personal learning record, not independent certification.

Change one condition

Choose one input or assumption from your original exercise and change it. Explain which part of the result must be recalculated, rechecked or withheld. Keep the revised answer and a short explanation of why the change matters. This is a transfer exercise: repeating the model answer without adapting it is insufficient.

Continue practising

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