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Sander Schulhoff

Founder & AI Researcher @ Learn Prompting

Runs HackAPrompt competition. Founded Learn Prompting, educating millions on prompt engineering.

“What works and what doesn’t, covering AI product work, engineering tradeoffs, and team leadership.”

Career History

CompanyRoleYears
Learn PromptingCo-founder & CEO2022-present
HackAPromptCEO (partnered with OpenAI)2023-present
Semiotic LabsDeep Reinforcement Learning Engineer~2021-2022
University of MarylandNLP & DRL Researcher~2020-2022
Johns Hopkins UniversityCV Researcher~2019-2020

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“Oh, so technically that would be zero-shot. There's a lot-”
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AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn’t | Sander Schulhoff (Learn Prompting, HackAPrompt)

13:19
“... all fairness, across the industry and across different industries, there's different meanings of these, but zero-shot is no examples.”
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AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn’t | Sander Schulhoff (Learn Prompting, HackAPrompt)

13:24
“One-shot is one examples, and few-shot is multiple.”
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AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn’t | Sander Schulhoff (Learn Prompting, HackAPrompt)

13:33
“Yeah, well, even within ML, there's research papers that call what you described one-shot. So it's-”
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AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn’t | Sander Schulhoff (Learn Prompting, HackAPrompt)

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“That's another thing you [inaudible 00:17:22]. You don't even necessarily have the inputs and the outputs. In your case, you just have, I guess, outputs that you're showing it from the past.”
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AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn’t | Sander Schulhoff (Learn Prompting, HackAPrompt)

17:20
“Yeah. This is perhaps the question that I am most prepared for out of any you'll ask, because I've spoken to this over, and over, and over again, and gotten into some internet debates about.”
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AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn’t | Sander Schulhoff (Learn Prompting, HackAPrompt)

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“I do remember at some point we put out a tweet and it was just, "Role prompting does not work." And it went super viral. We got a ton of hate. Yeah, I guess it was probably this way around, but anyway...”
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AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn’t | Sander Schulhoff (Learn Prompting, HackAPrompt)

20:25
“The math professor one would actually get easier to explain.”
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AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn’t | Sander Schulhoff (Learn Prompting, HackAPrompt)

23:46
“Telling it's a math professor could activate a certain region of its brain that is about math, and so it's thinking more about math. [inaudible 00:24:01]-”
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AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn’t | Sander Schulhoff (Learn Prompting, HackAPrompt)

23:49
“So I do distinguish them, and I think with this example you'll see kind of why.”
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AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn’t | Sander Schulhoff (Learn Prompting, HackAPrompt)

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“Yeah, that is the phrasing I like to-”
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AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn’t | Sander Schulhoff (Learn Prompting, HackAPrompt)

28:23
“I guess you could do it infinitely. I think the model would go crazy at some point.”
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AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn’t | Sander Schulhoff (Learn Prompting, HackAPrompt)

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