The Prompt Shop
by Ellis & Dev
Prompt Chaining: Breaking Big Jobs Into Small AI Steps
About this podcast
Prompt engineering, taught like a trade. The Prompt Shop teaches prompt engineering as a practical craft for making money with AI — writing better prompts for clients, products, and content. Learn the prompting techniques behind real AI freelance work, one methodical lesson at a time. For education and entertainment only — not financial, legal, or professional advice. We make no claims or guarantees about income; individual results vary widely.
Episodes
- Prompt Chaining: Breaking Big Jobs Into Small AI Steps · 16 minEllis and Dev break down prompt chaining — the method of splitting big AI jobs into small, linked steps — with a live walkthrough that turns a messy client brief into a polished…
- Constraint Prompting: Budgets, Formats, and Word Limits That Force Better Output · 19 min · Episode 5Ellis and Dev teach constraint prompting: how format, length, tone, and negative constraints force better AI output. Follow live before-and-after walkthroughs, learn to stack…
- Chain-of-Thought Prompting: Making the AI Show Its Work · 16 minEllis teaches Dev chain-of-thought prompting — making the AI reason step by step before answering — with two live walkthroughs: pricing a freelance project and choosing between…
- System Prompts: Programming the AI's Personality, Rules, and Style · 18 minEllis and Dev dive into system prompts — the hidden instructions that program an AI's personality, rules, and style before the user ever types a word. Live walkthrough: Dev…
- Few-Shot Prompting: Show, Don't Tell · 17 min · Episode 2Ellis shows Dev why examples beat adjectives when prompting AI: how few-shot prompting works, how many examples you really need, and the costly mistakes beginners make. Includes…
- The Anatomy of a Money-Making Prompt · 18 minEllis and Dev break down the four-part task-brief pattern — role, context, constraints, and output format — that turns vague AI requests into precise, money-making prompts. Watch…







