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What is an LLM?
Beginner5 minGenerative AI
Tokens, embeddings, attention — the simplest possible mental model.
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Prompt engineering 101
Beginner6 minGenerative AI
The five prompt patterns that account for 80% of real-world wins.
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Prompt patterns that ship
Beginner7 minGenerative AI
Few-shot, chain-of-thought, role, format. When each one earns its keep.
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Function calling, demystified
Intermediate7 minGenerative AI
Why structured tool use beats freeform JSON, with a runnable example.
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Reliable LLM output parsing
Intermediate6 minGenerative AI
Schemas, validators, retries. How to stop fighting your model.
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RAG in 10 minutes
Intermediate7 minAI Engineering
The smallest possible retrieval-augmented generation pipeline you can ship.
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Vector DB basics
Beginner6 minAI Engineering
What an embedding store actually does, and when you don't need one.
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Semantic chunking
Intermediate7 minAI Engineering
Why naive text splitting wrecks RAG quality, and what fixes it.
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Rerankers, explained
Intermediate6 minAI Engineering
Cross-encoders, cohere rerank, recall@k vs precision@k.
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Evals for LLM apps
Intermediate7 minAI Engineering
Pairwise, rubric, golden sets. The eval ladder every prod app needs.
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LLM observability
Intermediate6 minAI Engineering
Traces, costs, drift. The dashboards you wish you'd built on day one.
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Spreadsheet → Pandas
Beginner5 minData & Analytics
Translate VLOOKUP, pivot, filter into pandas. Every business analyst's first win.
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SQL fundamentals for AI
Beginner7 minData & Analytics
Joins, window functions, CTEs — the SQL that actually shows up in AI work.
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DataFrames vs arrays
Beginner5 minData & Analytics
When pandas helps, when numpy is faster, when both are wrong.
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Data quality fundamentals
Beginner6 minData & Analytics
Nulls, duplicates, drift. The five checks that catch 80% of bad data.
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Deploy an LLM on AWS
Intermediate7 minCloud + AI
Bedrock vs SageMaker vs EC2 — pick the right one for your latency budget.
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GCP Vertex AI 101
Intermediate7 minCloud + AI
Models, endpoints, pipelines. The minimum viable Vertex AI mental model.
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Azure OpenAI basics
Intermediate6 minCloud + AI
Deployments, capacities, content filters. Enterprise OpenAI without surprises.
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Serverless AI patterns
Intermediate7 minCloud + AI
Lambda + Bedrock, Cloud Run + Vertex. Cold starts, costs, when not to.
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AI pair programming
Beginner6 minProductivity
How senior engineers actually use Copilot and Claude — beyond autocomplete.
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Email triage with LLMs
Beginner7 minProductivity
Build a 30-line script that reads your inbox and writes draft replies.
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Meeting summaries that ship
Beginner5 minProductivity
Why most AI meeting notes suck, and the prompt structure that fixes them.
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Writing with Claude
Beginner6 minProductivity
When to use Claude as editor, ghostwriter, or thinking partner. Real examples.
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GenAI for leaders
Beginner7 minAI for Business
What every exec needs to know — capabilities, limits, hype vs substance.
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AI ROI frameworks
Intermediate7 minAI for Business
Three ways to measure AI ROI — and the one finance teams actually accept.
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AI policy template
Intermediate6 minAI for Business
A starter AI usage policy you can adapt in an afternoon. Legal-aware.
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Stripe's AI tax compliance
Intermediate7 minCase Studies
How Stripe shipped AI-driven tax classification — system design + tradeoffs.
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Shopify Magic — behind the scenes
Intermediate7 minCase Studies
The architecture and prompts behind Shopify's merchant-facing AI suite.
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