Feb 2026

Engineers and engineering leaders who build, deploy, and scale software systems.

Applying AI tools and techniques to professional workflows — assign alongside more specific AI topics.

Building autonomous AI agent systems that take actions, use tools, and orchestrate multi-step workflows.

Building retrieval-augmented generation and search systems — vector databases, embeddings, ranking, and retrieval pipelines.

Rethink search to put tireless agents at work for human users

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Doug Turnbull

Snuggie and Search Enthusiast

Cheat at Search with Agents

Learn to build LLM based query + content understanding in search

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Amazon Web Services

Nike

Airbnb

Workday

Achievable, Relevant Search without the PhD Great query and document understanding once took months of dedicated expertise to see results. With AI, you can see wins within weeks or days. Learn how to cut to the heart of your user's search problems, driving relevant, profitable search results.

Practical approach for search teams to adopt LLMs to improve search

Search teams eager to evolve that crufty-old search engine towards a modern approach

Search startups eager to get a fast start with a modern approach to search, sidestepping old, outdated practices

Team leads and managers excited to organize their work in a way aligned with modern approaches to Relevant Search

Who is this course for

What you’ll get out of this course

Help your understaffed search team see better outcomes faster with your search engine

Increase team velocity

Sidestep traditionally complex query and content enrichment with Large Language Models

Cheat at search with LLMs

Learn how there's no longer such a thing as "unstructured search". Turn any piece of query into a structured, well-formed query to your search backend

Make the unstructured, structured

Kick the theoretical to the curb. Deploying LLMs to production has gotten easier and easier. Smaller/local LLMs smarter. Do it all without a big OpenAI bill.

Make it a reality in production

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Community of peers

Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.

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Course syllabus

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Hands on projects making practical, LLM-driven search a reality

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Course schedule

Increase your team's pace of building relevant search applications using AI / Large Language Models

Faster search development

Learn how to think about search problems in a way that matches to YOUR user's expectations

Own your search

Get connected to the broader search community, get to know others in your space solving challenging search problems

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