Prompting

What this is about # Domain 4 of the Claude Certified Associate – Foundations exam is Prompting and Task Execution. It’s worth 14%. The framing that matters here: ask Claude to “write something about our Q3 results” and you get a generic paragraph. Specify the audience, the three results that matter, the format, and the length, and you get a draft you can almost send. The model didn’t get smarter between those two requests. The prompt did. This domain treats prompting as a communication discipline with learnable structure, not a knack some people have.

What this is about # Anthropic’s AI Fluency course breaks working with AI into four competencies instead of a pile of prompt tricks: Delegation, Description, Discernment, Diligence. The 4Ds. I went in expecting a prompting course and came out with a decision framework instead — one that’s less about writing better prompts and more about deciding what to hand off, how to communicate it, how to judge what comes back, and who’s accountable for it. Here’s each one, condensed to what actually matters.