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Frequently asked questions
Is a good prompt enough?
For simple tasks yes; for advanced cases you combine prompt, RAG, tools and sometimes fine-tuning.
Related terms
AI Agent
An AI agent is an autonomous software system that perceives its environment, reasons, and takes actions to achieve a goal — often using an LLM as its brain and tools (APIs, search, code) to act.
Generative AI
A family of AI models that can create new content (text, image, audio, video, code) from a prompt.
LLM (Large Language Model)
An LLM is a large language model trained on massive text corpora, capable of understanding and generating natural language across many tasks: writing, summarization, translation, code, reasoning.
Prompt Engineering
Prompt engineering is the discipline of designing, structuring, and refining the instructions given to an LLM to obtain reliable, accurate, and well-formatted answers.
Context Window
The maximum number of tokens a model can consider at once across input and output.
Last updated: 7/15/2026