InternshipKey terms and common mistakes
The words you will hear in Generative AI & Prompt Engineering work and the mistakes that most often cost interns approvals.
Key terms
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Generative AI | AI that creates new content |
| Next-token prediction | Core LLM task |
| Prompt | Instructions given to an AI |
| Zero-shot | No examples given |
| Code generation | AI writing code |
| Image prompt | Description for image generation |
| API key | Secret credential for API access |
| RAG | Retrieval-Augmented Generation |
Common mistakes to avoid
- Changing several parts of a prompt at once, so you cannot tell what helped.
- Not testing a prompt on enough different inputs.
- Accepting confident but wrong facts in model answers.
- Putting secrets or personal data into prompts.
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