🧑‍💻 ON CODING AS AN AI ENGINEER

- Do you code every day?

- If not, are you committed to coding every day as an AI Engineer?

If the answer to both of these questions is "No," this class is not for you.

💼 ON LEADING AI ENGINEERING TEAMS

- Do you manage a team of people that writes code every day?

If "Yes," this class might be for them.

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**KEY CURRICULUM UPDATES FOR COHORT 8**

🟢 [New Additions]

- Context Engineering from first principles

- A primary cohort use case that builds on itself and runs throughout the cohort

- Expansion of Model Context Protocol (MCP) content

- Using Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol to build and run two agents, one w/ MCP server and one to mimic a human using our agent

- Dedicated Guardrails session, from best-practices to implementation

🔴 [Deprecated]

- Explicit teaching of code and coding agents (in favor of a more implicit approach of using Claude Code regularly)

- Computer Use agents (in favor of A2A and operating an Agent in production)

- Contextual Retrieval

- Hugging Face smol agents

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OUR COMMUNITY

🏗️ 🚢🚀 AI Makerspace is on a mission to create the world's leading community for people who want to build, ship, and share production LLM applications.

Welcome! We invite you to join our close-knit AI Makerspace community on YouTube (learn live weekly with us for free at 10 AM PT on Wednesdays!) or Discord to start building, shipping, and sharing with us today!

https://aimakerspace.io/

OUR COURSE

The AIE Bootcamp is truly a bootcamp. It's hard. It's a grind. But it will transform you! It will get you comfortable thriving at "The LLM Edge" and beyond. Our students don't just learn; they transform!

Plus, every cohort culminates in a live Demo Day experience! Many of our graduates have launched entirely new startups based on their demo day presentations!

To hear our student's stories and for a quick glance at all the tools you'll master, check out the following link now!

https://aimakerspace.io/the-ai-engineering-bootcamp/

OUR ETHOS

Build 🏗️, Ship 🚢, Share 🚀!

This is the secret to success in a 21st-century workforce, and you will live this every class, every week of the cohort!

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Specifically, you will get hands-on experience building and sharing complex LLM and agentic applications weekly, receiving constant feedback during live sessions and through your homework submissions via instructors, peer supporters, and your fellow cohort members.

🙋 WHAT ARE THE PREREQUISITES

You must be familiar with Python programming, prompt engineering, and data science. Learn more about prerequisites here: https://bit.ly/aie7-prereqs

🙋 How will I know if it's right for me?

If you're unsure if this course be a fit for you, you'll find tons of resources on this page to help you decide, including:

📜 Curriculum & Detailed Schedule: https://bit.ly/aie7-curr

🤩 Demo Day Videos (from cohort 5): https://bit.ly/aie5-demos

🎤 Student Interview Videos: https://aimakerspace.io/category/transformations/

Here are a few long-form pieces of writing about the student experience:

- Richard Gower, Cohort 3: https://bit.ly/aie-cohort-3-reflections

- Ches Roldan's "20 Tips to Survive AI Makerspace’s AI Engineering Bootcamp (as a non-technical person)": https://bit.ly/aie-20tips

💰 How much do the tools cost?

Don't worry! This course is for the GPU-poor among us! This course adapts to industry-standard open-source software and compute hardware and is cloud platform agnostic. We strive to keep your additional costs low (below ~$100 total). Check Q&A for more info!**

WHO HAS TAKEN THIS COURSE

Since its launch in January 2024, over 250 people have taken the course! The most successful participants have been Software Engineers and Developers or Data Scientists and Machine Learning/AI Specialists, indicating a focus on analytics, modeling, and artificial intelligence.

Here is a list of companies whose employees have already taken the course:

Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Samsung, Salesforce, IBM, Oracle, Bloomberg, Deloitte, Atlassian, SAP, Infosys, ServiceNow, Shopify, NetApp, Autodesk, Jio Platforms, JP Morgan Chase (JPMC), Walmart, Chevron, Expedia, NTT Data, Ernst & Young, Fannie Mae, National Grid, State Farm, USAA, BMO, TD Bank, Mercer, Kiewit, BP, CVS, Safran, Appian

The most important thing for anyone taking the course is to take it seriously. This advanced course requires commitment, debugging, resilience, and tenacity. These personal attributes matter much more than your current company or job title.

Whether you're coming from a software engineering or data science background, to be a world-class AI Engineer, you'll need to know both. This class will teach you the lego blocks of building production-grade LLM applications software as an AI-Assisted Developer. This is where your journey begins!

Top 10 direct quotes from Cohort 5

“One of the best lessons I’ve ever had. The instructor’s level of expertise is high and his communication is extremely easy to understand. I have grasped all the concepts.”

“This session was pure gold, seeing actual applications, really nice!”

“I am having lots of fun and learning. LOVE THE ENERGY! Let’s go.”

“The breakout rooms are absolutely fantastic. Peer Supporters are bae.”

“The breakout rooms are just so good – easily sets it apart from 90% of other courses out there.”

“It was a great session today. Super helpful and getting clearer. Amazing job everyone. Love this!!!!”

“I have deployed and built a number of applications right from the first sessions of the course. Knowledge also helps me in self-study and research.”

“This class was worth every dollar, thank you guys!”

“Thank you for an amazing ride! <3”

“I complained last time about the breakout rooms not being long enough and the lectures being too long. This time I think the ratio was GLORIOUS PERFECTION!”

Top 10 direct quotes from Cohort 6

“I am grateful to be part of this cohort… Huge thanks to all of you!!!”

“I will be taking a lot of classes async… The recordings are posted so promptly and the Discord conversations stay active — exactly what you’d expect from a high-quality course!”

“I feel we’re the luckiest group to have Don and Laura in the same cohort — different styles, complementary strengths, and both incredibly patient.”

“Peer groups are awesome for discussion — the chats were fire.”

“Program is great. It moves fast, but I’d feel ripped off if I were too comfortable!”

“Great class, like always — really enjoying the cohort so far.”

“Shout out to everyone in AIM, including the peer supporters. What a great (but challenging) experience!”

“The sessions are going great. I’m learning a lot, and the peer supporters (Andre & Nithin) are so knowledgeable.”

“Mike is doing an excellent job — we’re really grokking the content in the breakouts!”

“Andre is amazing — super knowledgeable and incredibly patient in explaining everything to us.”