DF Labs Opens Telkom's AI Career Lab 2025 With a Lesson in Becoming a Prompt Architect

Telkom AI Connect's Free Online Bootcamp Prepares Students and Fresh Graduates for an AI-Shaped Job Market

21 November 2025 – Telkom AI Connect opened AI Career Lab 2025: Boost Your Productivity & Career with AI, a free online bootcamp on Zoom, on November 20, 2025, with a first session led by DF Labs, an Applied AI R&D collective. Running across four evening sessions from November 20 to December 4, 2025, the bootcamp was built for students, fresh graduates and anyone preparing for a professional career in the digital era.

AI is no longer just a trend; it is becoming a skill that shapes careers. The bootcamp covered career discovery, productivity with AI tools, CV preparation, personal branding and how to work with HR and recruiters, with sessions led by Raihan Ahmad Ahimsa (AI Practitioner and Founder, DF Labs) on November 20, Freenanda Tyko Kusumo (Principal IT Recruitment Consultant, GetHired.id) on November 27, Ilham Prayoga on December 3, and Fajar Nursodiq on December 4. Participants could earn an official certificate from Telkom Indonesia.

Ahimsa's opening session, "AI for Habit Building: Master AI, From User to Prompt Architect," began with a familiar story. New users treat AI like a search engine and hope it will read their minds; the results disappoint, hallucinations creep in, and they conclude that AI is not useful. His point was that poor output is almost always a problem of instruction. Clear in means clear out: talking to AI is closer to briefing a colleague, explaining a task to a tutor or giving directions to a tourist than to technical programming reserved for experts.

He contrasted two mindsets. The first treats AI as a magic answer machine: one-way questions, no context, and hope. The second treats it as a collaborative work partner: the user directs, the AI clarifies, and both sides exchange context. Getting there starts with knowing yourself, including how you learn, how you think and what you actually want, and knowing the AI: it needs full context, it cannot know what you want unless you say it, and it has limits. When unsure, he advised, ask the AI to ask you questions.

The session also explained, in plain terms, how a language model works: how it stores meaning as positions on a map of concepts, where related ideas sit close together, and how it predicts the next word, which is why word choice changes the quality of what comes out.

DF Labs thanked Telkom AI Connect for the collaboration and reaffirmed its commitment to helping Indonesia's young talent use AI with skill and judgment.

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About DF Labs

DF Labs is an Applied AI R&D studio committed to experimental exploration and analysis of artificial intelligence and its implications in our future. Through workshops, community gatherings, and collaborative research, DF Labs bridges visionaries, creative thinkers, and technical innovators to co-design an AI future that enriches society.

About Telkom AI Connect

Telkom AI Connect is a pillar of Telkom Indonesia's AI Center of Excellence. It brings together universities, industry, communities and Telkom in a collaborative ecosystem focused on building digital talent through collaboration, training and skill development matched to industry needs.