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Module 1 · How to talk to AI · Lesson 6/9
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Task

One task at a time (decomposition)

“Translate, shorten and arrange in a table” in one prompt gives a worse result than a chain of simple steps. Take the FIRST step: write a prompt that ONLY extracts email addresses and returns them in a list, one per line - nothing more.

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Foundation of automation and agents
💡 A bit of theory

A chain of simple prompts is more reliable than one complex one. One task at a time is the foundation of automation and agents.

How it's graded · passing score 70

  • 1Exactly 3 addresses (3 lines)40%
  • 2The response contains email addresses20%
  • 3Only addresses, no extra text40%
Your promptClaude ⌄