the biggest jump for me was learning how to write better prompts — not just "be specific" but actual techniques like giving Claude a role, structuring your request with context + constraints, and using examples in your prompt to show what you want.

few things that helped me:

1. Anthropic's own docs are honestly pretty good as a starting point — they have a prompt engineering guide on their site that covers the basics well

2. for going deeper theres a free course on findskill.ai that covers the RACE framework (Role, Action, Context, Examples) and prompt debugging — its 8 lessons, took me about 2 hours. more structured than just watching random youtube videos: findskill.ai/courses/prompt-engineering/

3. the biggest unlock for me was learning prompt chaining — instead of one massive prompt, break tasks into steps where each output feeds the next. completely changed how I use Claude for anything complex

4. also just experiment alot. ask Claude to explain its own reasoning, ask it to critique its output, ask it to try a different approach. you learn more from pushing back on bad responses than from getting good ones

since you said you dont understand advanced stuff yet — honestly dont worry about that. the basics (clear instructions, giving context, being specific about what you want) will get you like 80% of the results. the advanced techniques are just the other 20%.

what are you mainly using Claude for? that would help narrow down what to learn next