Develop Generative AI Applications: Get Started
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Taught by Hailey Quach, IBM Skills Network Team
Computer ScienceData Science
About the course
Get ready to power up your resume with the GenAI development skills employers need. During this course you’ll explore core prompt engineering strategies—like in-context learning and chain-of-thought—and create and manage robust prompt templates. Plus, you’ll follow best practices to handle common errors and experiment with different LLMs and configurations to strengthen your outputs. You’ll then dive deeper into LangChain, mastering chains, tools, and agents to create smarter, more responsive
The dissent
The most-upvoted critical review (9 votes, 1.0★).
“All the lab exercises are outdated. The llms provided by coursera are not compatible with the environment provided in coursera. Even the solution provided by coursera has errors sometimes. Due to this, I had to reprogram multiple parts of the practices, taking longer than the expected time (1h). As a result, I haven't been able to complete the practices as my schedule passed. I'm working while I learn this course and fixing the inconsistencies of the examples provided by the course just consumes too much time for me and I'm not being able to complete everything on time.”
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