This master class provides comprehensive training on prompt engineering techniques for Large Language Models (LLMs). The course covers AI foundations, LLM concepts, advanced prompting strategies, and practical implementation tools.
Schedule:
6/2/2025
One-Day Format:
- Start: 9:00 AM MST
- End: 4:00 PM MST
Syllabus:
Introduction and AI Foundations
- Brief history of AI development and key milestones
- The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Understanding parameters and model architecture
LLM Landscape and Core Concepts
- Types of LLMs: Cloud-hosted vs. Local models
- Model comparison and technical specifications
- Everyday model choices
- Research model options
- Cost considerations and privacy implications
- Context windows and token limits
- System prompts and instructions
- Hallucination: causes and mitigation strategies
- Temperature and top_p settings
- Training data knowledge cutoff
- First-try fallacy and testing variations
Prompt Engineering Techniques
- What makes a good chatbot: model, context, prompting, configurations
- Single-shot vs. Multi-shot prompting techniques
- Chain of Thought (CoT) prompting for complex reasoning
- Related research terms technique for context seeding
- Structured prompting with markdown
- Expert persona techniques
- Incentivization methods
- State-of-mind and substance prompting
- Step-by-step reasoning approaches
- Meta prompting techniques
- Weird machine tricks
Retrieval, Augmentation, and Agents
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) concepts and implementation
- RAG challenges and solutions
- Agent concepts and capabilities
- Agent frameworks and challenges
- Langchain and other tools
- Agents as APIs
- MCP servers
Tools and Implementation
- Front-end options (Fabric, Ollama, LM Studio, etc.)
- Development and integration tools
- GitHub Copilot and general agents
- Notebook LM consumption
- Realtime guidance and streaming
- IDEs for AI-assisted coding
- Configuration approaches
- Multi-prompting techniques
- Automation tools (n8n, Zapier, Make)
Some Reviews...
Just completed an outstanding "Red Blue Purple AI" training with Jason Haddix that explored how to leverage AI in cybersecurity from a Red Team perspective. The session was packed with practical strategies, including creating custom ChatGPT prompts to streamline and enhance cybersecurity workflows. Highly recommend this training for anyone eager to integrate generative AI into their security operations.
— Bharanisai M
Been slippin on my pimpin on this, but completed Jason Haddix’s Red, Blue Purple AI course a couple weeks ago. My last post was after Day 1, but Day 2 continued to raise the bar. In my 7 years of learning all the security things I have never walked away from a machine, article, course, etc. with the amount of desire and inspiration to just dive into the things I learned from it. It not only gives you the knowledge required to start doing some cool things with AI, but for the ones with a mind built for discovery (i.e the hackers), it lays all the carrots you need to just dive into the rabbit hole and see what you come out with.
— Kristoffer Sketch
I’m happy to share that I’ve completed a new training on "Red Blue Purple AI".
It was wonderful and so much to learn, explore and brainstorm in the world of LLM, prompt engineering and security. It is just the beginning & this rabbit hole goes deep.
— Rishi N
This past week, I attended the Red Blue Purple AI course by Arcanum Information Security, and it was an incredible experience. Jason Haddix once again delivered a pioneering course, this time diving into security and AI. The depth of the technical content was impressive, and the active participation of some of my security heroes made it even more outstanding.
— Michael Medenblik
A huge thank you to Jason Haddix from Arcanum Security for the fantastic class: Red, Blue, Purple AI!
I thoroughly enjoyed the sessions this past Thursday and Friday and am eagerly looking forward to more classes with Jason. I've got my eye on the Bug Hunters Methodology class next. 👀
Shout out to anyone looking to dive deeper into becoming an LLM power user, improving at manipulating models, writing bots, and developing innovative systems and use cases. Jason's class is a must!
— Peter Drybrough
Day 2 of Jason Haddix's Red Blue Purple AI delivered powerful insights into using AI for creating everything from policy development, working bypasses, detection rules all the way to a functional vCISO bot - you name it. The class was truly extraordinary, with myself having multiple lightbulb moments. Phenomenal job! Highly recommend you take this when it's next available
— Daniel Pajtak
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