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AI Engineer Certification

A complete, zero-to-hireable path: 19 courses, 151 chapters, each with a runnable lab and a check for understanding. Everything runs offline. The companion code and labs are open on GitHub. Free, no login, no email.

  1. Course 08 ch

    Foundations: Python and Math for AI

    From zero. Real Python you run yourself and only the math you need (vectors, matrices, probability, softmax, gradients). 8 chapters, live.

  2. Course 110 ch

    LLM Fundamentals: Build a Tiny LLM From Scratch

    Build a real language model by hand: tokenizer, embeddings, attention, transformer, training loop, generation. The depth vertical. 10 chapters, live.

  3. Course 28 ch

    Prompt Engineering

    The first lever and highest-frequency daily skill: few-shot, chain-of-thought, structured output, caching, and eval-driven optimization.

  4. Course 38 ch

    RAG and Embeddings

    The #1 production pattern (70% of teams). Embeddings, chunking, vector search, re-ranking, end-to-end RAG, and the failure modes that bite.

  5. Course 48 ch

    Agents, Tools and MCP

    The 2026 frontier: the ReAct loop, tool and function calling, memory, and the Model Context Protocol (build an MCP server).

  6. Course 58 ch

    Evaluation and Testing

    Evals replace unit tests. Golden datasets, code graders vs LLM-as-judge, regression gates, hallucination scoring. Table-stakes.

  7. Course 68 ch

    LLM Application Engineering

    The literal daily job: APIs and SDKs, streaming, structured output, retries and rate limits, cost control, multi-provider routing, observability.

  8. Course 78 ch

    Training and Fine-tuning

    Shape a base model: datasets, loss curves, SFT and LoRA/QLoRA, DPO, and the judgment of when to fine-tune vs prompt vs RAG.

  9. Course 88 ch

    Transformers Deep Dive

    Explain the internals cold: positional encodings (RoPE), attention variants, BPE, KV cache, scaling laws. The T-shape depth vertical.

  10. Course 98 ch

    AI Engineering in Production

    Ship and operate: serving, quantization (AWQ/GGUF), vLLM/KV cache, eval-gated CI/CD, cost and drift monitoring, LLMOps.

  11. Course 108 ch

    AI Safety and Security

    The OWASP LLM Top 10, prompt-injection offense and defense, guardrails, and red-teaming your own app. Ada's differentiator.

  12. Course 116 ch

    Multimodal AI

    Vision-language, image generation, speech (STT/TTS), and multimodal RAG. The converging edge.

  13. Course 128 ch

    Interview Prep and System Design

    Ace the interview: the real loop, from-scratch coding, LLM system design, take-home patterns, behavioral, and question banks.

  14. Course 137 ch

    Capstone Projects

    What gets you hired: 3-5 deployed, evaluated builds. RAG assistant, tool-calling agent, eval pipeline, MCP assistant, self-red-teamed app.

  15. Course 148 ch

    Claude Code and Agentic Builds

    Build agents the way Claude Code does: the agentic loop, the tool contract, ReAct, subagents and delegation, MCP, hooks and guardrails, orchestrating a fleet, and a complete agentic workflow. 8 chapters, offline labs.

  16. Course 158 ch

    Claude Code SDK and API

    Drive Claude from code: the Messages API and Agent SDK end to end. Typed responses, system and roles, streaming, tool use, the agent loop (tool_runner), structured output, prompt caching and token counting, then a small shippable app.

  17. Course 168 ch

    CCA-F Certification Prep

    Pass the Claude certification: the weighted exam domains, scenarios, and recurring wrong-answer traps, each drilled with a runnable lab and a mock exam scored at the real pass line. 8 chapters.

  18. Course 178 ch

    LifeOS: Setup to Advanced

    The personal AI operating system end to end: current state to ideal state, install, TELOS, the Algorithm, skills, hooks, Pulse, and composing it into a daily OS. 8 chapters.

  19. Course 188 ch

    LifeOS Mastery: The Complete Setup

    The flagship LifeOS course, taught the way its creator teaches it: why before how, and the full personalized setup end to end. Install and upgrade, name your DA, identity and a quantified 12-trait personality, TELOS in two parts, the /interview, migrate your context, and run it all through the Algorithm as a daily OS. 8 chapters, offline labs.