Context is King: The Secret Sauce Behind Great AI
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About this Class
Think prompt engineering is the key to better AI results? Think again. The most effective AI users know that what you tell AI matters—but what you give it matters even more. Join CIT’s Technology Training Program for Context Is King: The Secret Sauce to Great AI, an engaging class designed to help you get more useful, accurate, and relevant results from AI tools. You’ll discover why context engineering has become one of today’s most valuable AI skills. Through practical, NIH-focused examples, you’ll learn how to provide the background, goals, source materials, examples, audience information, and constraints that help AI understand what you really need.
In this class, you’ll learn how to:
- Recognize why even a well-written prompt can produce a weak response
- Give AI the background and supporting information it needs
- Define your audience, goals, requirements, and boundaries
- Use examples and documents to improve accuracy and relevance
- Build reusable context for common NIH tasks
- Help AI respond more like a knowledgeable teammate—and less like a generic chatbot