AI Course for Developers
Practical AI development and observability for developers building proof-of-concepts and moving it to prod
This program is for…
Full-stack developers who wish to add AI to their skills
CTOs, VPs, Leads who are not familiar with AI
Technical founders exploring AI products
Quick Facts
Format
Hands-On Online Workshop
8 weeks
2-hour sessions
Evenings or Weekends
Instructor
Hai Nghiem
AI Educator (20k subs)
Founder of Cats with Bats
LangChain Contributor and Ambassador
Founded AI Tinkeres Ottawa (800 members)
Cost
$200, only for the first cohort!
We are testing this program and will likely increase the price for future cohorts.
Content
Week 1
Introduction
Basic Algorithms
Our First Project
Project
AI Support Bot to help customers with their queries.
Week 2
Extending Knowledge
Embeddings
Web Search
Web Scraping
Project
Adding external knowledge sources like a help desk library or web capabilities to our support bot.
Week 3
Actions
Function Calling
Project
Let's help our AI Support Bot take actions on behalf of the user.
Week 4
Agents
Agentic Thinking
Project
Let's help our bot become more agentic by being able to think and take actions at the right time.
Week 5
Modality
Voice (Sync, Async)
Vision
Project
Let's give our bot eyes, ears, and mouth to further extend its communication
Week 6
Observability
Tracing
Eval
LLM as Judge
Project
How do we debug issues in an AI-driven application?
Week 7
Production
AWS / Azure / GCP ?
Serverless?
Costs
Project
Let's deploy our bot to the cloud using multiple methods
Week 6
Security
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GDPR / SOC2 Compliance
Project
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Hai Nghiem
Founder at Cats with Bats - the place for AI engineers to find practical AI development tutorials and for companies to educate developers and increase awareness
Founded AI Tinkerers Ottawa (800 members in one year) with regular talks from Open Interpreter, Cerebras Systems, and open-source authors from groups like EleutherAI
LangChain contributor and ambassador
Provides monthly workshops for Invest Ottawa's portfolio startups
$1500
$200