AGI has arrived, and the prompt almost died

The original FEP taught you to write the entire program inside the prompt. With the September 2026 models, half of that became a crutch. Seven lessons go technique by technique: what died, what’s only useful sometimes, what still holds, and what was missing. You’ll leave with your own prompts audited and rewritten.

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24 to 28 min per lesson · nothing to install · works on your phone and computer

The thesis

The prompt almost died. What really died was the part that held the hand of an AI that no longer exists. What remains is what was always yours: the destination, the guardrails, the criteria, and the responsibility.

The triage

Four buckets for each FEP technique

Dead

Manual Chain-of-Thought, reasoning skeletons, persona templates, lists of “don’ts,” temperature, prefilling, manual chaining, humanization, the hundred prompts, the certification.

Only when useful

Few-shot, role as perspective, structured output, steps with approval, multimodal, ask first. Each with “use when” and “don’t use when.”

Continue

Clarity about the intended outcome, context, constraints as boundaries, criteria for good, brief iteration, the context window as a concept, security, responsibility.

New

Context with a home, skill as a manual, the four blocks, subtraction, gates and approval, effort instead of parameters, weekly sampling, a kit of twelve briefings.

What you’ll know how to do

Results, not theory

Audit your prompts line by line with the line test (destination or crutch), and cut the nine techniques that became a burden without losing what was yours.

Write the six-part brief in place of the four ingredients, and take from it what repeats to create a context sheet and a skill of its own.

Decide case by case the six conditional techniques, each with its own "use when / don't use" table.

Migrate an old prompt to arrive at four blocks by subtraction, map the entry points for your first agent, choose a model and effort level, measure with a sample, and leave with three briefings from the kit.

Who it’s for

Made for where you are now

it's for you if

You took FEP, FEP2, or another prompting course and want to know what to do with what you learned.
You use ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini at work and feel that your old prompts get less out of them than they used to, like the auto shop owner, the nutritionist, the materials store manager, and the print shop owner who appear in the lessons.
You want something simple and direct: one technique per section, with the before and after.

it’s not for you if

You want to build RAG with code, a vector database, production observability, or voice agents. Those topics were deliberately left out of this course.
You want the map of the five eras to put your sector in context. That’s the companion course, FEP → AGI.
You want a course with traditional video lessons.

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