StartLesson 8 · Pick the right pattern
Before you start
About 20 minutes · 4 steps
What you'll do
Read six requests from Northgate staff, pick the simplest approach that works for each one, and say why in two or three sentences.
Why it matters
This is the decision you'll make with real clients: which design fits which problem. Getting it right early saves a lot of wasted work.
What you'll walk away with
- Practice choosing between prompting, RAG, a workflow, an agent and fine-tuning
- Six short written reasons, saved in your copy of the code
- Model answers to compare with yours
What “done” looks like
- All six requests have an approach and a reason, and you've submitted them
- You've answered the two quick questions
All 4 steps in this lesson
- 1· 2 min
- 2· 16 min
- 3· 1 min
- 4· 1 min