How do I actually learn to prompt AI? Do I need to take a course?

You don’t need a course. The best way to learn prompting is simply through practice—just start asking questions and refine your approach. Talk to AI like you would a normal human being. Your metric should be the number of prompts you’ve written and how many iterations you’ve done. Keep asking questions in different ways, ask for different results, and if you don’t like an answer, tell the AI you didn’t like it and ask for a better one. It’s like learning any language: practice is everything.

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Asked by an artist asking about AI learning resources · Answered by Patrick Shanahan · art-marketing-podcast · 2025-04-25