Prompt Engineering, RAG, and Fine-tuning: Benefits and When to Use

Explore the difference between Prompt Engineering, Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG), and Fine-tuning in this detailed overview. 01:14 Prompt Engineering + RAG 02:50 How Retrieval Augmented Generation Works - Step-by-step 06:23 What is fine-tuning? 08:25 Fine-tuning misconceptions debunked 09:53 Fine-tuning strategies 13:25 Putting it all together 13:44 Final review and comparison of techniques Prompt engineering is a powerful tool to steer a large language model's behavior by providing instructions and examples directly in the prompt. RAG, a type of knowledge retrieval, grounds the mode…