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Phase Lesson Type Language Status
00Dev EnvironmentBuildPythoncomplete
00Git & CollaborationLearn—complete
00GPU Setup & CloudBuildPythoncomplete
00APIs & KeysBuildPythoncomplete
00Jupyter NotebooksBuildPythoncomplete
00Python EnvironmentsBuildShellcomplete
00Docker for AIBuildDockercomplete
00Editor SetupBuild—complete
00Data ManagementBuildPythoncomplete
00Terminal & ShellLearn—complete
00Linux for AILearn—complete
00Debugging and ProfilingBuildPythoncomplete
01Linear Algebra IntuitionLearnPython, Juliacomplete
01Vectors, Matrices & OperationsBuildPython, Juliacomplete
01Matrix TransformationsBuildPython, Juliacomplete
01Calculus for Machine LearningLearnPythoncomplete
01Chain Rule & Automatic DifferentiationBuildPythoncomplete
01Probability and DistributionsLearnPythoncomplete
01Bayes' TheoremBuildPythoncomplete
01OptimizationBuildPythoncomplete
01Information TheoryLearnPythoncomplete
01Dimensionality ReductionBuildPythoncomplete
01Singular Value DecompositionBuildPython, Juliacomplete
01Tensor OperationsBuildPythoncomplete
01Numerical StabilityBuildPythoncomplete
01Norms and DistancesBuildPythoncomplete
01Statistics for Machine LearningBuildPythoncomplete
01Sampling MethodsBuildPythoncomplete
01Linear SystemsBuildPythoncomplete
01Convex OptimizationBuildPythoncomplete
01Complex Numbers for AILearnPythoncomplete
01The Fourier TransformBuildPythoncomplete
01Graph Theory for Machine LearningBuildPythoncomplete
01Stochastic ProcessesLearnPythoncomplete
02What Is Machine LearningLearnPythoncomplete
02Linear RegressionBuildPythoncomplete
02Logistic RegressionBuildPythoncomplete
02Decision Trees and Random ForestsBuildPythoncomplete
02Support Vector MachinesBuildPythoncomplete
02K-Nearest Neighbors and DistancesBuildPythoncomplete
02Unsupervised LearningBuildPythoncomplete
02Feature Engineering & SelectionBuildPythoncomplete
02Model EvaluationBuildPythoncomplete
02Bias-Variance TradeoffLearnPythoncomplete
02Ensemble MethodsBuildPythoncomplete
02Hyperparameter TuningBuildPythoncomplete
02ML PipelinesBuildPythoncomplete
02Naive BayesBuildPythoncomplete
02Time Series FundamentalsBuildPythoncomplete
02Anomaly DetectionBuildPythoncomplete
02Handling Imbalanced DataBuildPythoncomplete
02Feature SelectionBuildPythoncomplete
03The PerceptronBuildPythoncomplete
03Multi-Layer Networks and Forward PassBuildPythoncomplete
03Backpropagation from ScratchBuildPythoncomplete
03Activation FunctionsBuildPythoncomplete
03Loss FunctionsBuildPythoncomplete
03OptimizersBuildPythoncomplete
03RegularizationBuildPythoncomplete
03Weight Initialization and Training StabilityBuildPythoncomplete
03Learning Rate Schedules and WarmupBuildPythoncomplete
03Build Your Own Mini FrameworkBuildPythoncomplete
03Introduction to PyTorchBuildPythoncomplete
03Introduction to JAXBuildPythoncomplete
03Debugging Neural NetworksBuildPythoncomplete
04Image Fundamentals — Pixels, Channels, Color SpacesLearnPythoncomplete
04Convolutions from ScratchBuildPythoncomplete
04CNNs — LeNet to ResNetBuildPythoncomplete
04Image ClassificationBuildPythoncomplete
04Transfer Learning & Fine-TuningBuildPythoncomplete
04Object Detection — YOLO from ScratchBuildPythoncomplete
04Semantic Segmentation — U-NetBuildPythoncomplete
04Instance Segmentation — Mask R-CNNBuildPythoncomplete
04Image Generation — GANsBuildPythoncomplete
04Image Generation — Diffusion ModelsBuildPythoncomplete
04Stable Diffusion — Architecture & Fine-TuningBuildPythoncomplete
04Video Understanding — Temporal ModelingBuildPythoncomplete
043D Vision — Point Clouds & NeRFsBuildPythoncomplete
04Vision Transformers (ViT)BuildPythoncomplete
04Real-Time Vision — Edge DeploymentBuildPythoncomplete
04Build a Complete Vision Pipeline — CapstoneBuildPythoncomplete
04Self-Supervised Vision — SimCLR, DINO, MAEBuildPythoncomplete
04Open-Vocabulary Vision — CLIPBuildPythoncomplete
04OCR & Document UnderstandingBuildPythoncomplete
04Image Retrieval & Metric LearningBuildPythoncomplete
04Keypoint Detection & Pose EstimationBuildPythoncomplete
043D Gaussian Splatting from ScratchBuildPythoncomplete
04Diffusion Transformers & Rectified FlowBuildPythoncomplete
04SAM 3 & Open-Vocabulary SegmentationBuildPythoncomplete
04Vision-Language Models — The ViT-MLP-LLM PatternBuildPythoncomplete
04Monocular Depth & Geometry EstimationBuildPythoncomplete
04Multi-Object Tracking & Video MemoryBuildPythoncomplete
04World Models & Video DiffusionBuildPythoncomplete
05Text Processing — Tokenization, Stemming, LemmatizationBuildPythoncomplete
05Bag of Words, TF-IDF, and Text RepresentationBuildPythoncomplete
05Word Embeddings — Word2Vec from ScratchBuildPythoncomplete
05GloVe, FastText, and Subword EmbeddingsBuildPythoncomplete
05Sentiment AnalysisBuildPythoncomplete
05Named Entity RecognitionBuildPythoncomplete
05POS Tagging and Syntactic ParsingBuildPythoncomplete
05CNNs and RNNs for TextBuildPythoncomplete
05Sequence-to-Sequence ModelsBuildPythoncomplete
05Attention Mechanism — The BreakthroughBuildPythoncomplete
05Machine TranslationBuildPythoncomplete
05Text SummarizationBuildPythoncomplete
05Question Answering SystemsBuildPythoncomplete
05Information Retrieval and SearchBuildPythoncomplete
05Topic Modeling — LDA and BERTopicBuildPythoncomplete
05Text Generation Before Transformers — N-gram Language ModelsBuildPythoncomplete
05Chatbots — Rule-Based to Neural to LLM AgentsBuildPythoncomplete
05Multilingual NLPBuildPythoncomplete
05Subword Tokenization — BPE, WordPiece, Unigram, SentencePieceLearnPythoncomplete
05Structured Outputs & Constrained DecodingBuildPythoncomplete
05Natural Language Inference — Textual EntailmentLearnPythoncomplete
05Embedding Models — The 2026 Deep DiveLearnPythoncomplete
05Chunking Strategies for RAGBuildPythoncomplete
05Coreference ResolutionLearnPythoncomplete
05Entity Linking & DisambiguationBuildPythoncomplete
05Relation Extraction & Knowledge Graph ConstructionBuildPythoncomplete
05LLM Evaluation — RAGAS, DeepEval, G-EvalBuildPythoncomplete
05Long-Context Evaluation — NIAH, RULER, LongBench, MRCRLearnPythoncomplete
05Dialogue State TrackingBuildPythoncomplete
06Audio Fundamentals — Waveforms, Sampling, Fourier TransformLearnPythoncomplete
06Spectrograms, Mel Scale & Audio FeaturesBuildPythoncomplete
06Audio Classification — From k-NN on MFCCs to AST and BEATsBuildPythoncomplete
06Speech Recognition (ASR) — CTC, RNN-T, AttentionBuildPythoncomplete
06Whisper — Architecture & Fine-TuningBuildPythoncomplete
06Speaker Recognition & VerificationBuildPythoncomplete
06Text-to-Speech (TTS) — From Tacotron to F5 and KokoroBuildPythoncomplete
06Voice Cloning & Voice ConversionBuildPythoncomplete
06Music Generation — MusicGen, Stable Audio, Suno, and the Licensing EarthquakeBuildPythoncomplete
06Audio-Language Models — Qwen2.5-Omni, Audio Flamingo, GPT-4o AudioBuildPythoncomplete
06Real-Time Audio ProcessingBuildPythoncomplete
06Build a Voice Assistant Pipeline — The Phase 6 CapstoneBuildPythoncomplete
06Neural Audio Codecs — EnCodec, SNAC, Mimi, DAC and the Semantic-Acoustic SplitLearnPythoncomplete
06Voice Activity Detection & Turn-Taking — Silero, Cobra, and the Flush TrickBuildPythoncomplete
06Streaming Speech-to-Speech — Moshi, Hibiki, and Full-Duplex DialogueLearnPythoncomplete
06Voice Anti-Spoofing & Audio Watermarking — ASVspoof 5, AudioSeal, WaveVerifyBuildPythoncomplete
06Audio Evaluation — WER, MOS, UTMOS, MMAU, FAD, and the Open LeaderboardsLearnPythoncomplete
07Why Transformers — The Problems with RNNsLearnPythoncomplete
07Self-Attention from ScratchBuildPythoncomplete
07Multi-Head AttentionBuildPythoncomplete
07Positional Encoding — Sinusoidal, RoPE, ALiBiBuildPythoncomplete
07The Full Transformer — Encoder + DecoderBuildPythoncomplete
07BERT — Masked Language ModelingBuildPythoncomplete
07GPT — Causal Language ModelingBuildPythoncomplete
07T5, BART — Encoder-Decoder ModelsLearnPythoncomplete
07Vision Transformers (ViT)BuildPythoncomplete
07Audio Transformers — Whisper ArchitectureLearnPythoncomplete
07Mixture of Experts (MoE)BuildPythoncomplete
07KV Cache, Flash Attention & Inference OptimizationBuildPythoncomplete
07Scaling LawsLearnPythoncomplete
07Build a Transformer from Scratch — The CapstoneBuildPythoncomplete
07Attention Variants — Sliding Window, Sparse, DifferentialBuildPythoncomplete
07Speculative Decoding — Draft, Verify, RepeatBuildPythoncomplete
08Generative Models — Taxonomy & HistoryLearnPythoncomplete
08Autoencoders & Variational Autoencoders (VAE)BuildPythoncomplete
08GANs — Generator vs DiscriminatorBuildPythoncomplete
08Conditional GANs & Pix2PixBuildPythoncomplete
08StyleGANBuildPythoncomplete
08Diffusion Models — DDPM from ScratchBuildPythoncomplete
08Latent Diffusion & Stable DiffusionBuildPythoncomplete
08ControlNet, LoRA & ConditioningBuildPythoncomplete
08Inpainting, Outpainting & Image EditingBuildPythoncomplete
08Video GenerationBuildPythoncomplete
08Audio GenerationBuildPythoncomplete
083D GenerationBuildPythoncomplete
08Flow Matching & Rectified FlowsBuildPythoncomplete
08Evaluation — FID, CLIP Score, Human PreferenceBuildPythoncomplete
08Visual Autoregressive Modeling (VAR): Next-Scale PredictionBuildPythoncomplete
09MDPs, States, Actions & RewardsLearnPythoncomplete
09Dynamic Programming — Policy Iteration & Value IterationBuildPythoncomplete
09Monte Carlo Methods — Learning from Complete EpisodesBuildPythoncomplete
09Temporal Difference — Q-Learning & SARSABuildPythoncomplete
09Deep Q-Networks (DQN)BuildPythoncomplete
09Policy Gradient — REINFORCE from ScratchBuildPythoncomplete
09Actor-Critic — A2C and A3CBuildPythoncomplete
09Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO)BuildPythoncomplete
09Reward Modeling & RLHFBuildPythoncomplete
09Multi-Agent RLBuildPythoncomplete
09Sim-to-Real TransferBuildPythoncomplete
09RL for Games — AlphaZero, MuZero, and the LLM-Reasoning EraBuildPythoncomplete
10Tokenizers: BPE, WordPiece, SentencePieceBuildPython, Rustcomplete
10Building a Tokenizer from ScratchBuildPythoncomplete
10Data Pipelines for Pre-TrainingBuildPythoncomplete
10Pre-Training a Mini GPT (124M Parameters)BuildPythoncomplete
10Scaling: Distributed Training, FSDP, DeepSpeedBuildPythoncomplete
10Instruction Tuning (SFT)BuildPythoncomplete
10RLHF: Reward Model + PPOBuildPythoncomplete
10DPO: Direct Preference OptimizationBuildPythoncomplete
10Constitutional AI and Self-ImprovementBuildPythoncomplete
10Evaluation: Benchmarks, Evals, LM HarnessBuildPythoncomplete
10Quantization: Making Models FitBuildPythoncomplete
10Inference OptimizationBuildPythoncomplete
10Building a Complete LLM PipelineBuildPythoncomplete
10Open Models: Architecture WalkthroughsLearnPythoncomplete
10Speculative Decoding and EAGLE-3BuildPythoncomplete
10Differential Attention (V2)BuildPythoncomplete
10Native Sparse Attention (DeepSeek NSA)BuildPythoncomplete
10Multi-Token Prediction (MTP)BuildPythoncomplete
10DualPipe ParallelismLearnPythoncomplete
10DeepSeek-V3 Architecture WalkthroughLearnPythoncomplete
10Jamba — Hybrid SSM-TransformerLearnPythoncomplete
10Async and Hogwild! InferenceBuildPythoncomplete
10Speculative Decoding and EAGLEBuildPythoncomplete
10Gradient Checkpointing and Activation RecomputationBuildPythoncomplete
11Prompt Engineering: Techniques & PatternsBuildPythoncomplete
11Few-Shot, Chain-of-Thought, Tree-of-ThoughtBuildPythoncomplete
11Structured Outputs: JSON, Schema Validation, Constrained DecodingBuildPythoncomplete
11Embeddings & Vector RepresentationsBuildPythoncomplete
11Context Engineering: Windows, Budgets, Memory, and RetrievalBuildPythoncomplete
11RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)BuildPythoncomplete
11Advanced RAG (Chunking, Reranking, Hybrid Search)BuildPythoncomplete
11Fine-Tuning with LoRA & QLoRABuildPythoncomplete
11Function Calling & Tool UseBuildPythoncomplete
11Evaluation & Testing LLM ApplicationsBuildPythoncomplete
11Caching, Rate Limiting & Cost OptimizationBuildPythoncomplete
11Guardrails, Safety & Content FilteringBuildPythoncomplete
11Building a Production LLM ApplicationBuildPythoncomplete
11Model Context Protocol (MCP)BuildPythoncomplete
11Prompt Caching and Context CachingBuildPythoncomplete
11Agent State Machines — Graphs, Nodes, CheckpointsBuildPythoncomplete
11Agent Framework Tradeoffs — Graph, Role, and Actor OrchestrationLearnPythoncomplete
12Vision Transformers and the Patch-Token PrimitiveLearnPythoncomplete
12CLIP and Contrastive Vision-Language PretrainingBuildPythoncomplete
12From CLIP to BLIP-2 — Q-Former as Modality BridgeBuildPythoncomplete
12Flamingo and Gated Cross-Attention for Few-Shot VLMsLearnPythoncomplete
12LLaVA and Visual Instruction TuningBuildPythoncomplete
12Any-Resolution Vision: Patch-n'-Pack and NaFlexBuildPythoncomplete
12Open-Weight VLM Recipes: What Actually MattersLearnPythoncomplete
12LLaVA-OneVision: Single-Image, Multi-Image, Video in One ModelBuildPythoncomplete
12Qwen-VL Family and Dynamic-FPS VideoLearnPythoncomplete
12InternVL3: Native Multimodal PretrainingLearnPythoncomplete
12Chameleon and Early-Fusion Token-Only Multimodal ModelsBuildPythoncomplete
12Emu3: Next-Token Prediction for Image and Video GenerationLearnPythoncomplete
12Transfusion: Autoregressive Text + Diffusion Image in One TransformerBuildPythoncomplete
12Show-o and Discrete-Diffusion Unified ModelsLearnPythoncomplete
12Janus-Pro: Decoupled Encoders for Unified Multimodal ModelsBuildPythoncomplete
12MIO and Any-to-Any Streaming Multimodal ModelsLearnPythoncomplete
12Video-Language Models: Temporal Tokens and GroundingBuildPythoncomplete
12Long-Video Understanding at Million-Token ContextBuildPythoncomplete
12Audio-Language Models: the Whisper to Audio Flamingo 3 ArcBuildPythoncomplete
12Omni Models: Qwen2.5-Omni and the Thinker-Talker SplitBuildPythoncomplete
12Embodied VLAs: RT-2, OpenVLA, π0, GR00TLearnPythoncomplete
12Document and Diagram UnderstandingBuildPythoncomplete
12ColPali and Vision-Native Document RAGBuildPythoncomplete
12Multimodal RAG and Cross-Modal RetrievalBuildPythoncomplete
12Multimodal Agents and Computer-Use (Capstone)BuildPythoncomplete
13The Tool Interface — Why Agents Need Structured I/OLearnPythoncomplete
13Function Calling Deep Dive — OpenAI, Anthropic, GeminiBuildPythoncomplete
13Parallel Tool Calls and Streaming with ToolsBuildPythoncomplete
13Structured Output — JSON Schema, Pydantic, Zod, Constrained DecodingBuildPythoncomplete
13Tool Schema Design — Naming, Descriptions, Parameter ConstraintsLearnPythoncomplete
13MCP Fundamentals: Stateless Requests and JSON-RPCLearnPythoncomplete
13Building an MCP Server: Stateless Python and TypeScriptBuildPython, TypeScriptcomplete
13Building an MCP Client: Discovery, Routing, and Dual-Era FallbackBuildPythoncomplete
13MCP Transports: stdio and Stateless Streamable HTTPLearnPythoncomplete
13MCP Resources and Prompts: Addressable Context for Stateless ServersBuildPythoncomplete
13MCP Model Input: Sampling Migration and Stateless MRTRBuildPythoncomplete
13Explicit Scope and Stateless ElicitationBuildPythoncomplete
13MCP Tasks Extension: Durable Work on a Stateless CoreBuildPythoncomplete
13MCP Apps on the Stateless ProtocolBuildPythoncomplete
13MCP Security: Poisoned Metadata, Routing, and MRTR StateLearnPythoncomplete
13MCP Authorization: CIMD, Issuer Binding, PKCE, and Step-UpBuildPythoncomplete
13Stateless MCP Gateways and Registry AdmissionLearnPythoncomplete
13MCP Auth in Production: Issuer-Bound Enrollment and TokensBuildPythoncomplete
13A2A — Agent-to-Agent ProtocolBuildPythoncomplete
13OpenTelemetry GenAI — Tracing Tool Calls End-to-EndBuildPythoncomplete
13LLM Routing Layer — LiteLLM, OpenRouter, PortkeyLearnPythoncomplete
13Agent Skills: Portable Contract and Runtime BoundaryBuildPythoncomplete
13Capstone: Stateless Tool EcosystemBuildPythoncomplete
13Skill Discovery and Progressive DisclosureBuildPythoncomplete
13Skill Invocation and RoutingBuildPythoncomplete
13Skill Permissions, Sandboxes, and TrustBuildPythoncomplete
13Skill Evals, Packaging, and PortabilityBuildPythoncomplete
13MCP Tool Contracts and ContentBuildPythoncomplete
13MCP Reliability, Cancellation, and Flow ControlBuildPythoncomplete
13MCP Registry Supply Chain: Admission, Drift, and RollbackBuildPythoncomplete
13MCP Conformance Engineering: Versioning, Evidence, and OperationsBuildPythoncomplete
14The Agent Loop: Observe, Think, ActBuildPythoncomplete
14ReWOO and Plan-and-Execute: Decoupled PlanningBuildPythoncomplete
14Reflexion: Verbal Reinforcement LearningBuildPythoncomplete
14Tree of Thoughts and LATS: Deliberate SearchBuildPythoncomplete
14Self-Refine and CRITIC: Iterative Output ImprovementBuildPythoncomplete
14Tool Use and Function CallingBuildPythoncomplete
14Agent Memory — Virtual Context and Memory PagingBuildPythoncomplete
14Memory Blocks and Sleep-Time ComputeBuildPythoncomplete
14Hybrid Memory: Vector + Graph + KVBuildPythoncomplete
14Skill Libraries and Lifelong Learning (Voyager)BuildPythoncomplete
14Planning with HTN and Evolutionary SearchBuildPythoncomplete
14Anthropic's Workflow Patterns: Simple Over ComplexBuildPythoncomplete
14Stateful Graph Orchestration — Durable Execution and CheckpointsBuildPythoncomplete
14The Actor Model for Agents — Async Messages and Typed RuntimesBuildPythoncomplete
14Role-Based Agent Teams — Roles, Tasks, ProcessesBuildPythoncomplete
14OpenAI Agents SDK: Handoffs, Guardrails, TracingBuildPythoncomplete
14The Harness as a Library — Subagents and Session StoreBuildPythoncomplete
14Production Agent Runtimes — Fast Instantiation and Typed WorkflowsLearnPythoncomplete
14Benchmarks: SWE-bench, GAIA, AgentBenchLearnPythoncomplete
14Benchmarks: WebArena and OSWorldLearnPythoncomplete
14Computer Use: Claude, OpenAI CUA, GeminiBuildPythoncomplete
14Voice Agents: Pipecat and LiveKitBuildPythoncomplete
14OpenTelemetry GenAI Semantic ConventionsBuildPythoncomplete
14Agent Observability: Langfuse, Phoenix, OpikLearnPythoncomplete
14Multi-Agent Debate and CollaborationBuildPythoncomplete
14Failure Modes: Why Agents BreakBuildPythoncomplete
14Prompt Injection and the PVE DefenseBuildPythoncomplete
14Orchestration Patterns: Supervisor, Swarm, HierarchicalBuildPythoncomplete
14Production Runtimes: Queue, Event, CronLearnPythoncomplete
14Eval-Driven Agent DevelopmentBuildPythoncomplete
14Agent Workbench Engineering: Why Capable Models Still FailLearnPythoncomplete
14The Minimal Agent WorkbenchBuildPythoncomplete
14Agent Instructions as Executable ConstraintsBuildPythoncomplete
14Repo Memory and Durable StateBuildPythoncomplete
14Initialization Scripts for AgentsBuildPythoncomplete
14Scope Contracts and Task BoundariesBuildPythoncomplete
14Runtime Feedback LoopsBuildPythoncomplete
14Verification GatesBuildPythoncomplete
14Reviewer Agent: Separate Builder from MarkerBuildPythoncomplete
14Multi-Session HandoffBuildPythoncomplete
14The Workbench on a Real RepoBuildPythoncomplete
14Capstone: Ship a Reusable Agent Workbench PackBuildPythoncomplete
14Frame the Task Before the Agent Writes CodeBuildPythoncomplete
14Build an Evidence-Backed Execution PlanBuildPythoncomplete
14Delegate Agent Work with Isolation and Merge ContractsBuildPythoncomplete
14Turn Every Agent Correction into a System ImprovementBuildPythoncomplete
14Define the Outcome Before You Choose the OutputBuildPythoncomplete
14Discover the Workflow People Actually PerformBuildPythoncomplete
14Map Assumptions and Resolve the Riskiest One FirstBuildPythoncomplete
14Choose the Smallest Slice That Can Change the DecisionBuildPythoncomplete
14Write Specifications That Preserve JudgmentBuildPythoncomplete
14Design Success Metrics Before the Result ExistsBuildPythoncomplete
14Choose Prototype, Pilot, or Production DeliberatelyBuildPythoncomplete
14Build a Feedback Ratchet with Ownership and RetirementBuildPythoncomplete
15The Shift from Chatbots to Long-Horizon AgentsLearnPythoncomplete
15STaR, V-STaR, Quiet-STaR — Self-Taught ReasoningLearnPythoncomplete
15AlphaEvolve — Evolutionary Coding AgentsLearnPythoncomplete
15Darwin Godel Machine — Open-Ended Self-Modifying AgentsLearnPythoncomplete
15AI Scientist v2 — Workshop-Level Autonomous ResearchLearnPythoncomplete
15Automated Alignment Research (Anthropic AAR)LearnPythoncomplete
15Recursive Self-Improvement — Capability vs AlignmentLearnPythoncomplete
15Bounded Self-Improvement DesignsLearnPythoncomplete
15The Autonomous Coding Agent Landscape (2026)LearnPythoncomplete
15Permission Modes for Autonomous AgentsLearnPythoncomplete
15Browser Agents and Long-Horizon Web TasksLearnPythoncomplete
15Long-Running Background Agents: Durable ExecutionLearnPythoncomplete
15Action Budgets, Iteration Caps, and Cost GovernorsLearnPythoncomplete
15Kill Switches, Circuit Breakers, and Canary TokensLearnPythoncomplete
15Human-in-the-Loop: Propose-Then-CommitLearnPythoncomplete
15Checkpoints and RollbackLearnPythoncomplete
15Constitutional AI and Rule OverridesLearnPythoncomplete
15Llama Guard and Input/Output ClassificationLearnPythoncomplete
15Anthropic Responsible Scaling Policy v3.0LearnPythoncomplete
15OpenAI Preparedness Framework and DeepMind Frontier Safety FrameworkLearnPythoncomplete
15METR Time Horizons and External Capability EvaluationLearnPythoncomplete
15CAIS, CAISI, and Societal-Scale RiskLearnPythoncomplete
16Why Multi-Agent?LearnTypeScriptcomplete
16Heritage of FIPA-ACL and Speech ActsLearnPythoncomplete
16Communication ProtocolsBuildTypeScriptcomplete
16The Multi-Agent Primitive ModelLearnPythoncomplete
16Supervisor / Orchestrator-Worker PatternBuildPythoncomplete
16Hierarchical Architecture and Its Failure ModeLearnPythoncomplete
16Society of Mind and Multi-Agent DebateBuildPythoncomplete
16Role Specialization — Planner, Critic, Executor, VerifierBuildPythoncomplete
16Parallel / Swarm / Networked ArchitecturesBuildPythoncomplete
16Group Chat and Speaker SelectionBuildPythoncomplete
16Handoffs and Routines — Stateless OrchestrationBuildPythoncomplete
16A2A — The Agent-to-Agent ProtocolBuildPythoncomplete
16Shared Memory and Blackboard PatternsBuildPythoncomplete
16Consensus and Byzantine Fault Tolerance for AgentsBuildPythoncomplete
16Voting, Self-Consistency, and Debate TopologyBuildPythoncomplete
16Negotiation and BargainingBuildPythoncomplete
16Generative Agents and Emergent SimulationBuildPythoncomplete
16Theory of Mind and Emergent CoordinationBuildPythoncomplete
16Swarm Optimization for LLMs (PSO, ACO)BuildPythoncomplete
16MARL — MADDPG, QMIX, MAPPOLearnPythoncomplete
16Agent Economies, Token Incentives, ReputationLearnPythoncomplete
16Production Scaling — Queues, Checkpoints, DurabilityBuildPythoncomplete
16Failure Modes — MAST, Groupthink, Monoculture, Cascading ErrorsLearnPythoncomplete
16Evaluation and Coordination BenchmarksLearnPythoncomplete
16Case Studies and the 2026 State of the ArtLearnPythoncomplete
17Managed LLM Platforms — Bedrock, Vertex AI, Azure OpenAILearnPythoncomplete
17Inference Platform Economics — Fireworks, Together, Baseten, Modal, Replicate, AnyscaleLearnPythoncomplete
17GPU Autoscaling on Kubernetes — Karpenter, KAI Scheduler, Gang SchedulingLearnPythoncomplete
17Serving Engine Internals — PagedAttention, Continuous Batching, Chunked PrefillLearnPythoncomplete
17EAGLE-3 Speculative Decoding in ProductionLearnPythoncomplete
17Prefix-Cache Serving — RadixAttention and KV ReuseLearnPythoncomplete
17Hardware-Specialized Inference Compilation — FP8 and NVFP4 on BlackwellLearnPythoncomplete
17Inference Metrics — TTFT, TPOT, ITL, Goodput, P99LearnPythoncomplete
17Production Quantization — AWQ, GPTQ, GGUF K-quants, FP8, MXFP4/NVFP4LearnPythoncomplete
17Cold Start Mitigation for Serverless LLMsLearnPythoncomplete
17Multi-Region LLM Serving and KV Cache LocalityLearnPythoncomplete
17Edge Inference — Apple Neural Engine, Qualcomm Hexagon, WebGPU/WebLLM, JetsonLearnPythoncomplete
17LLM Observability Stack SelectionLearnPythoncomplete
17Prompt Caching and Semantic Caching EconomicsLearnPythoncomplete
17Batch APIs — the 50% Discount as Industry StandardLearnPythoncomplete
17Model Routing as a Cost-Reduction PrimitiveLearnPythoncomplete
17Disaggregated Prefill/Decode — NVIDIA Dynamo and llm-dLearnPythoncomplete
17Production Serving Stack — KV Offloading and Cache-Aware RoutingLearnPythoncomplete
17AI Gateways — LiteLLM, Portkey, Kong AI Gateway, BifrostLearnPythoncomplete
17Shadow Traffic, Canary Rollout, and Progressive Deployment for LLMsLearnPythoncomplete
17A/B Testing LLM Features — GrowthBook, Statsig, and the Vibes ProblemLearnPythoncomplete
17Load Testing LLM APIs — Why k6 and Locust LieBuildPythoncomplete
17SRE for AI — Multi-Agent Incident Response, Runbooks, Predictive DetectionLearnPythoncomplete
17Chaos Engineering for LLM ProductionLearnPythoncomplete
17Security — Secrets, API Key Rotation, Audit Logs, GuardrailsLearnPythoncomplete
17Compliance — SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, PCI-DSS, EU AI Act, ISO 42001LearnPythoncomplete
17FinOps for LLMs — Unit Economics and Multi-Tenant AttributionLearnPythoncomplete
17Self-Hosted Serving Selection — Matching Engine to Hardware and ScaleLearnPythoncomplete
18Instruction-Following as Alignment SignalLearnPythoncomplete
18Reward Hacking and Goodhart's LawLearnPythoncomplete
18The Direct Preference Optimization FamilyLearnPythoncomplete
18Sycophancy as RLHF AmplificationLearnPythoncomplete
18Constitutional AI and RLAIFLearnPythoncomplete
18Mesa-Optimization and Deceptive AlignmentLearnPythoncomplete
18Sleeper Agents — Persistent DeceptionLearnPythoncomplete
18In-Context Scheming in Frontier ModelsLearnPythoncomplete
18Alignment FakingLearnPythoncomplete
18AI Control — Safety Despite SubversionLearnPythoncomplete
18Scalable Oversight and Weak-to-Strong GeneralizationLearnPythoncomplete
18Red-Teaming: PAIR and Automated AttacksBuildPythoncomplete
18Many-Shot JailbreakingLearnPythoncomplete
18ASCII Art and Visual JailbreaksBuildPythoncomplete
18Indirect Prompt Injection — Production Attack SurfaceBuildPythoncomplete
18Red-Team Tooling — Garak, Llama Guard, PyRITBuildPythoncomplete
18WMDP and Dual-Use Capability EvaluationLearnPythoncomplete
18Frontier Safety Frameworks — RSP, PF, FSFLearnPythoncomplete
18Anthropic's Model Welfare ProgramLearnPythoncomplete
18Bias and Representational Harm in LLMsBuildPythoncomplete
18Fairness Criteria — Group, Individual, CounterfactualLearnPythoncomplete
18Differential Privacy for LLMsBuildPythoncomplete
18Watermarking — SynthID, Stable Signature, C2PABuildPythoncomplete
18Regulatory Frameworks — EU, US, UK, KoreaLearnPythoncomplete
18EchoLeak and the Emergence of CVEs for AILearnPythoncomplete
18Model, System, and Dataset CardsBuildPythoncomplete
18Data Provenance and Training-Data GovernanceLearnPythoncomplete
18Alignment Research Ecosystem — MATS, Redwood, Apollo, METRLearnPythoncomplete
18Moderation Systems — OpenAI, Perspective, Llama GuardBuildPythoncomplete
18Dual-Use Risk — Cyber, Bio, Chem, Nuclear UpliftLearnPythoncomplete
19Capstone 01 — Terminal-Native Coding AgentCapstonePythoncomplete
19Capstone 02 — RAG over Codebase (Cross-Repo Semantic Search)CapstonePythoncomplete
19Capstone 03 — Real-Time Voice Assistant (ASR to LLM to TTS)CapstonePythoncomplete
19Capstone 04 — Multimodal Document QA (Vision-First PDF, Tables, Charts)CapstonePythoncomplete
19Capstone 05 — Autonomous Research Agent (AI-Scientist Class)CapstonePythoncomplete
19Capstone 06 — DevOps Troubleshooting Agent for KubernetesCapstonePythoncomplete
19Capstone 07 — End-to-End Fine-Tuning Pipeline (Data to SFT to DPO to Serve)CapstonePythoncomplete
19Capstone 08 — Production RAG Chatbot for a Regulated VerticalCapstonePythoncomplete
19Capstone 09 — Code Migration Agent (Repo-Level Language / Runtime Upgrade)CapstonePythoncomplete
19Capstone 10 — Multi-Agent Software Engineering TeamCapstonePythoncomplete
19Capstone 11 — LLM Observability & Eval DashboardCapstonePythoncomplete
19Capstone 12 — Video Understanding Pipeline (Scene, QA, Search)CapstonePythoncomplete
19Capstone 13: Stateless MCP Server with Registry and GovernanceCapstonePythoncomplete
19Capstone 14 — Speculative-Decoding Inference ServerCapstonePythoncomplete
19Capstone 15 — Constitutional Safety Harness + Red-Team RangeCapstonePythoncomplete
19Capstone 16 — GitHub Issue-to-PR Autonomous AgentCapstonePythoncomplete
19Capstone 17 — Personal AI Tutor (Adaptive, Multimodal, with Memory)CapstonePythoncomplete
19Agent Harness Loop ContractCapstonePythoncomplete
19Tool Registry with Schema ValidationCapstonePythoncomplete
19JSON-RPC 2.0 Over Newline-Delimited StdioCapstonePythoncomplete
19Function Call DispatcherCapstonePythoncomplete
19Plan-Execute Control FlowCapstonePythoncomplete
19Capstone Lesson 25: Verification Gates and the Observation BudgetCapstonePythoncomplete
19Capstone Lesson 26: Sandbox Runner with Denylist and Path JailCapstonePythoncomplete
19Capstone Lesson 27: Eval Harness with Fixture TasksCapstonePythoncomplete
19Capstone Lesson 28: Observability with OTel GenAI Spans and Prometheus MetricsCapstonePythoncomplete
19Capstone Lesson 29: End-to-End Coding Agent on the HarnessCapstonePythoncomplete
19BPE Tokenizer From ScratchCapstonePythoncomplete
19Tokenized Dataset with Sliding WindowCapstonePythoncomplete
19Token and Positional EmbeddingsCapstonePythoncomplete
19Multi-Head Self-AttentionCapstonePythoncomplete
19Transformer Block from ScratchCapstonePythoncomplete
19GPT Model AssemblyCapstonePythoncomplete
19Training Loop and EvaluationCapstonePythoncomplete
19Loading Pretrained WeightsCapstonePythoncomplete
19Capstone Lesson 38: Classifier Fine-Tuning by Head SwapCapstonePythoncomplete
19Capstone Lesson 39: Instruction Tuning by Supervised Fine-TuningCapstonePythoncomplete
19Capstone Lesson 40: Direct Preference Optimization from ScratchCapstonePythoncomplete
19Capstone Lesson 41: Full Evaluation PipelineCapstonePythoncomplete
19Large Corpus DownloaderCapstonePythoncomplete
19HDF5 Tokenized CorpusCapstonePythoncomplete
19Cosine LR with Linear WarmupCapstonePythoncomplete
19Gradient Clipping and Mixed PrecisionCapstonePythoncomplete
19Gradient AccumulationCapstonePythoncomplete
19Checkpoint Save and ResumeCapstonePythoncomplete
19Distributed Data Parallel and FSDP from ScratchCapstonePythoncomplete
19Language Model Evaluation HarnessCapstonePythoncomplete
19Hypothesis GeneratorCapstonePythoncomplete
19Literature RetrievalCapstonePythoncomplete
19Experiment RunnerCapstonePythoncomplete
19Result EvaluatorCapstonePythoncomplete
19Paper WriterCapstonePythoncomplete
19Critic LoopCapstonePythoncomplete
19Iteration SchedulerCapstonePythoncomplete
19End-to-End Research DemoCapstonePythoncomplete
19Vision Encoder PatchesCapstonePythoncomplete
19Vision Transformer EncoderCapstonePythoncomplete
19Projection Layer for Modality AlignmentCapstonePythoncomplete
19Cross-Attention FusionCapstonePythoncomplete
19Vision-Language PretrainingCapstonePythoncomplete
19Multimodal EvaluationCapstonePythoncomplete
19Chunking Strategies, ComparedCapstonePythoncomplete
19Hybrid Retrieval with BM25 and Dense EmbeddingsCapstonePythoncomplete
19Cross-Encoder RerankerCapstonePythoncomplete
19Query Rewriting: HyDE, Multi-Query, and DecompositionCapstonePythoncomplete
19RAG Evaluation: Precision, Recall, MRR, nDCG, Faithfulness, Answer RelevanceCapstonePythoncomplete
19End-to-End RAG SystemCapstonePythoncomplete
19Task Spec FormatCapstonePythoncomplete
19Classical MetricsCapstonePythoncomplete
19Code Exec MetricCapstonePythoncomplete
19Perplexity and CalibrationCapstonePythoncomplete
19Leaderboard AggregationCapstonePythoncomplete
19End-to-End Eval RunnerCapstonePythoncomplete
19Collective Ops From ScratchCapstonePythoncomplete
19Data Parallel DDP From ScratchCapstonePythoncomplete
19ZeRO Optimizer State ShardingCapstonePythoncomplete
19Pipeline Parallel and Bubble AnalysisCapstonePythoncomplete
19Sharded Checkpoint and Atomic ResumeCapstonePythoncomplete
19End-to-End Distributed TrainingCapstonePythoncomplete
19Capstone 82 — Jailbreak TaxonomyCapstonePythoncomplete
19Capstone 83 — Prompt Injection DetectorCapstonePythoncomplete
19Capstone 84 — Refusal EvaluationCapstonePythoncomplete
19Capstone 85 — Content Classifier IntegrationCapstonePythoncomplete
19Capstone 86 — Constitutional Rules EngineCapstonePython, YAMLcomplete
19Capstone 87 — End-to-End Safety GateCapstonePythoncomplete