Live Online Cohort · June 2026
Building Production
AI Systems
A 3-part hands-on program covering Design → Develop → Deploy for real-world AI systems.
June 2026 Live Classes
📅 Schedule
You'll receive invites to both batches: choose which one to join each day.
Program Outline
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Saturday
AI Engineering Landscape
- •AI Engineer vs ML Engineer
- •LLM Applications Architecture
- •Context Windows
- •Tokens
- •Cost
- •Latency
- •Hallucinations
Workshop: Build a basic prompt → LLM → response pipeline
Sunday
Development Environment
- •UV
- •OpenAI SDK
- •LiteLLM
- •Environment Management
- •Project Structure
Assignment: Build a basic AI Assistant
Tools & Frameworks
Saturday
Structured Generation
- •JSON Mode
- •Schemas
- •Validation
- •Pydantic
Workshop: Invoice Parser
Sunday
Reliability Engineering
- •Validation Failures
- •Retry Strategies
- •Error Handling
Assignment: Support Ticket Classifier
Tools & Frameworks
Saturday
DSPy Foundations
- •Signatures
- •Modules
- •Chains
Workshop: DSPy Classifier
Sunday
Prompt Optimization
- •Examples
- •Teleprompting
- •Optimizers
Assignment: Multi-stage Extraction Workflow
Tools & Frameworks
Saturday
Why Evaluation Matters
- •Golden Datasets
- •Benchmarking
- •Human Evaluation
Workshop: Build Evaluation Dataset
Sunday
Automated Evaluation
- •DeepEval
- •Ragas
Assignment: Evaluate Previous Projects
Tools & Frameworks
Saturday
Production Monitoring
- •Traces
- •Logs
- •Metrics
Workshop: Phoenix
Sunday
Cost & Latency
- •Token Usage
- •Monitoring
- •Dashboards
Assignment: Observability Dashboard
Tools & Frameworks
Saturday
Why RAG Exists
- •Embeddings
- •Similarity Search
- •Retrieval
Workshop: Dense Retrieval
Sunday
Chunking
- •Fixed
- •Recursive
- •Semantic
Assignment: Build Naive RAG
Tools & Frameworks
Saturday
Hybrid Search
- •BM25
- •Dense Retrieval
- •RRF
Workshop: Hybrid Retriever
Sunday
Retrieval Optimization
- •Reranking
- •Query Rewriting
- •Context Compression
Assignment: Production RAG Pipeline
Tools & Frameworks
Saturday
Agent Fundamentals
- •Tool Calling
- •Planning
- •State
Workshop: Core concepts of Agent
Sunday
LangGraph
- •Nodes
- •Edges
- •Workflows
Assignment: Research Agent
Tools & Frameworks
Saturday
Agent Collaboration
- •Supervisors
- •Delegation
- •Routing
Workshop: Multi-Agent Workflow
Sunday
Real Architectures
- •Customer Support
- •Research
- •Operations
Assignment: Multi-Agent Project
Tools & Frameworks
Saturday
Memory
- •Short-Term
- •Long-Term
Workshop: Memory Layer
Sunday
Context Management
- •Compression
- •Summarization
- •Retrieval Memory
Assignment: Persistent Assistant
Tools & Frameworks
Saturday
Security
- •Prompt Injection
- •Jailbreaks
- •PII
Workshop: Attack Simulations
Sunday
Guardrails
- •NeMo Guardrails
- •Guardrails AI
Assignment: Secure Agent
Tools & Frameworks
Saturday
Deployment
- •FastAPI
- •Docker
- •Cloud Deployment
Workshop: Production Deployment
Sunday
Final Project Presentations
- •Enterprise AI Assistant
- •Structured Outputs → DSPy → Evaluation → Monitoring → RAG → Agent → Memory → Guardrails → Deployment
Tools & Frameworks
What Students Receive
By the end of 12 weeks they will have:
What you will get
Design → Develop → Deploy for production AI systems
Trade-offs in model selection & pipelines
Lifetime access to recordings & community
Prerequisite: Programming experience required