Course lesson · Lesson 9

Evolutionary Prompt Optimization

Treat prompts and instructions as artifacts you measure and improve systematically rather than tweak by feel.

What you'll take away

Improve a prompt, skill, or tool description through a bounded loop — failure, benchmark, mutate, evaluate, constrain, review.
Define a validation set and success criteria before mutating anything.
Change one variable at a time so you can tell what actually improved.
Guard optimization against benchmark gaming, semantic drift, and hidden authority expansion — human review is part of the loop.

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