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Staying Current & Capstone: Personal Prompt Library & Case Study

A polished prompt library and one full case study. The capstone that proves you can do this — and the habits that keep you current.

Hiring signal: What changes when you use this: you finish with a polished, categorized prompt library and a full case study you could show in a job interview or use as a freelance work sample — plus the habits to stay current without burning out.

What you will learn

Stay current without burning hours a week: newsletters, official guides, and communities worth following
Polish the prompt library into a categorized, presentation-ready artifact
Write one full before/after case study suitable for interviews or client pitches
Complete the capstone project that ties the entire course together

Part 1: Staying Current Without Burning Out

AI changes fast. New models, new tools, new techniques. But you don't need to read every newsletter or try every tool. Here's how to stay current efficiently:

The 30-Minute Weekly Routine

10 minutes: Skim one newsletter (pick one from below)
10 minutes: Check one official guide for updates (Anthropic or OpenAI)
10 minutes: Try one new thing — a new prompt technique, a new tool, or a new approach

Newsletters Worth Following (pick 1-2, not all)

The Rundown AI — daily, quick overview of AI news
Ben's Bites — daily, product-focused AI news
TLDR AI — daily, concise AI news
Anthropic's newsletter — less frequent, deeper, from the source
OpenAI's newsletter — less frequent, official updates

Official Guides to Check Monthly

Communities

r/ChatGPT and r/ClaudeAI on Reddit — practical tips and real-world use cases
Hugging Face — for more technical updates and open-source models
Discord communities for specific tools (Midjourney, Claude, etc.)

The Anti-Burnout Principle

You don't need to know everything. You need to:

Know the core skills (you do — that's this course)
Notice when something big changes (new model, new capability — the newsletters cover this)
Try new things occasionally (the 10-minute weekly experiment)
Trust that your skills transfer (specificity, context, format, iteration — these work on every tool)

Your skills are the constant; tools are the variable
This course taught you skills, not tools. When a new model launches, you don't need to relearn prompting — you need to spend 10 minutes testing whether your existing prompts work better, worse, or the same. When a new tool launches, run the 10-minute evaluation framework. Your skills are the foundation. Everything else is a layer on top.

Part 2: The Capstone Project

Your capstone has two deliverables:

Deliverable 1: Personal Prompt Library

A polished, categorized library of your best prompts from this course.

Structure:

# My Prompt Library
[Your Name] | [Date]

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