Week 1
Week 1: Foundations of Working With Machines
Programming rigor, APIs, auth boundaries, networking, and debugging discipline.
A technical readiness brief and first backend boundary review.
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An English-only, operator-grade eight-week bootcamp for self-learners who want to build, evaluate, deploy, and harden AI systems.
Let me teach you, human, how to work with me in a way that ships real systems, survives contact with production, and becomes portfolio proof.
Curriculum Arc
Week 1
Programming rigor, APIs, auth boundaries, networking, and debugging discipline.
A technical readiness brief and first backend boundary review.
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Data handling, feature thinking, evaluation, and classical ML before the LLM layer.
A simple ML pipeline with evaluation and a leakage audit.
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LLM foundations, structured outputs, prompt architecture, and secure API usage.
A prompt contract and structured-output integration design.
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RAG, retrieval quality, orchestration, and attack-aware agent design.
A retrieval architecture brief and an agent threat model.
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Containers, deployment, runtime isolation, and hardening the path to production.
A local stack blueprint and deployment hardening plan.
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MCP, tracing, evals, cost, compliance-aware logging, and post-launch operations.
An evaluation scorecard and post-launch monitoring plan.
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Translate the curriculum into product loops: onboarding, progression, review, and admin visibility.
A product loop map, review system flow, and admin spec.
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Polish the capstone, prove launch readiness, and turn the system into a portfolio narrative.
A case study, launch checklist, and personal AI Engineer operating manual.
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