beginner track · 12 hours
AI Foundations
Start here. The mental models, vocabulary, and hands-on skills every AI developer needs before building production systems.
Courses in this track
Course 1 · 3h
How LLMs Actually Work
Tokens, context windows, attention, and the difference between training and inference — explained without the math jargon.
You'll be able to:
- Explain why a 128K context window doesn't mean the model 'remembers' your conversation
- Predict how many tokens a prompt costs before sending it
- Choose the right model for a given task by latency, cost, and capability
Course 2 · 4h
Prompt Engineering Essentials
Move past 'pretty please' prompts. Learn the techniques that make outputs reliable, structured, and cheap.
You'll be able to:
- Write prompts that produce valid JSON 99%+ of the time without parsing errors
- Apply few-shot examples that actually generalize
- Build prompt scaffolds that scale across hundreds of customer use cases