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FREE Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) Interview Prep

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·60 minutes
Priyanka Vergadia and Bhargav Patel
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How Cursor Turned AI Agents Into Better Engineers

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·60 minutes
Lauren Tan and Colin Matthews
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The Free AI Builders Crash Course

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·Aug 26·7 lessons
Priyanka Vergadia
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Ace AI Interviews in the Age of FDEs

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·45 minutes
Mahesh Yadav
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FDE Interview Loop: From a real Founding FDE @ Notion

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·Sep 25·30 minutes
Paden Gayle
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How to pass the AI FDE Interview at MAANG

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·Sep 28·30 minutes
Aki Wijesundara, PhD and Manu Jayawardana
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The Hillclimb: How to Measure and Improve Your AI Agents

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·Sep 16·60 minutes
Avery Yip, Lucy Chen, and Colin Matthews
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The Go-To AI Leader’s Playbook

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·Aug 14·8 lessons
Keyuri Anand
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Designing for a Screenless Future

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·45 minutes
Erin Essex
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Build & Ship With AI: From Idea to Working Prototype

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·Sep 17·45 minutes
Maxime Rabot
10

Loop & Harness Engineering Masterclass

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·Sep 26·90 minutes
Aishwarya Srinivasan and Arvind Narayanamurthy
11

The FDE Playbook: What No Job Description Tells You

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·Oct 19·60 minutes
Aishwarya & Arvind and Nikhil Nainani
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Design Figma Files That Scale with AI

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·30 minutes
Christine Vallaure
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From Coder to FDE: Building AI Systems That Ship

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·45 minutes
Carmelo Iaria and Shekar Murthy
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How to Deploy AI Agents to Production (Live RAG Demo) ⭐

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·60 minutes
Aishwarya Srinivasan & Arvind Narayan and Rami Krispin
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Testing GPT-6 Astra Live: Is this AGI?

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·60 minutes
Dr. Ryan Ahmed, Ph.D., MBA and Kukesh Kodess
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The AI Forward-Deployed Engineer Playbook

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·Dec 22·30 minutes
Aki Wijesundara, PhD and Manu Jayawardana
17

Claude Cowork 102: Build your team of AI agents

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·Sep 17·60 minutes
Mirza Rahim Baig
18

Graph and Loop Engineering: Structure Your Agent's Work

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·Sep 30·30 minutes
Aki Wijesundara, PhD and Manu Jayawardana
19

How to Break Into AI Engineering in 2026

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·60 minutes
Meri Nova and Hai Nghiem
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Build a Team of Agents in Claude Cowork to Find Customers

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·Oct 7·60 minutes
Pietro Montaldo - AI for non-techies
21

Learn System Design Architecture & Crack MAANG Interviews

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·Sep 18·45 minutes
Mahesh Yadav
22

Evaluate Your Agent Skills: Build Evals That Actually Work

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·Sep 19·30 minutes
Shrey Shah and Dr. Aki Wijesundara
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Five Mistakes Everyone Makes When Building AI Agents

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·Sep 17·45 minutes
Hugo Bowne-Anderson
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Graph Engineering Explained Visually and Practically

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·60 minutes
Priyanka Vergadia
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AI Evals for Product Managers

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·60 minutes
Anshumani Ruddra
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Trends in AI Engineering

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·Sep 29·60 minutes
Hugo Bowne-Anderson and Alexey Grigorev
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Put GPT-6 Astra To Work: 5 Builds You Can Run This Week

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·75 minutes
Sara Davison & Tyler Fisk
28

Agents and Agent Skills - A Practical Walkthrough

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·60 minutes
Anshumani Ruddra
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Build an eval rubric for your AI Product from scratch

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·Oct 8·30 minutes
Madalina Turlea and Catalina Turlea
30

How I Use Claude Skills for LinkedIn (Live Demo, No Code)

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·Sep 22·60 minutes
Pietro Montaldo - AI for non-techies
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Become a Forward Deployed Engineer by O'Reilly Author

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·Sep 18·45 minutes
Paden Gayle
32

Vibe Coding for UX Researchers: Build a Findings Page Live

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·30 minutes
Sohvi Silius
33

Build Your First Lead Generation Agent (Claude Cowork)

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·Sep 28·60 minutes
Pietro Montaldo
34

7 Factor Framework for Production-Ready AI Agents

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·60 minutes
Priyanka Vergadia and Zayne Turner
35

How to Build AI-Powered Internal Tools

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·Sep 22·45 minutes
Harold Dijkstra and Kieran Ball
36

Stop Building a UX Portfolio Website (Do This Instead)

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·30 minutes
Sarah Doody
37

Beyond Simple Agents: Building with LangChain Deep Agents

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·Oct 12·60 minutes
Aishwarya & Arvind and Jess Weng
38

Build Your Portfolio with GPT: Fast, Visual Decks

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·45 minutes
Keyuri Anand
39

Build Your AI Marketing Team in Claude Cowork

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·45 minutes
Will Leatherman
40

Fireside Chat with Chris Taylor, VP & Fellow at Google

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·45 minutes
Aish & Arvind and Christopher Taylor
41

Women in Tech: Get hired without checking every box

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·Sep 19·30 minutes
Anyell Cano
42

Codex Maxxing

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·60 minutes
Jason Liu and Vignesh Mohankumar
43

Global AI Builder Series: by The Gen Academy

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·Aug 17·28 lessons
Aish & Arvind
44

How to Negotiate Your Best Amazon Offer

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·45 minutes
Tommy Jay Corpuz and Annie Murray
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Deploying Sovereign AI Agents in the Enterprise

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·60 minutes
Aishwarya Srinivasan & Arvind Narayan and Siva Surendira
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Claude Cowork: Build your AI Analyst

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·Sep 24·60 minutes
Mirza Rahim Baig
47

Communicate Better with AI: 6 Mistakes To Avoid

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·30 minutes
William Arruda and Kathy Caprino
48

Outreach & Tracking with Gemini: Your Job Search Agent

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·Sep 19·45 minutes
Keyuri Anand
49

From Team to System: Figma and AI Workflows

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·Sep 17·30 minutes
Christine Vallaure
50

Claude Code & Cowork: Build Your One-Person Company Crew

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·45 minutes
Nathan Wang
51

Designing AI Evals for UX & Product Teams

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·Sep 23·30 minutes
Melissa Wittmayer
52

The Skills Companies Look For When Hiring FDEs

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·60 minutes
Aishwarya & Arvind and Phani Kolanuvada
53

Map Your Agentic Growth Workflow for AI Product

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·Oct 21·60 minutes
Grace Man and Godhuli Chatterjee
54

How to Use AI to Accelerate & Scale Your Job Search

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·Oct 2·45 minutes
Alex Harlan
55

Figma MCP vs. Paper MCP: What Evals Actually Tell You

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·Sep 16·60 minutes
Aishwarya & Arvind and Jessica Wang
56

Build Your Own LLM From Scratch (Actually Understand AI)

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·60 minutes
Priyanka Vergadia
57

The Signal Loop: What to BUILD when you can build anything

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·60 minutes
Aishwarya Srinivasan & Arvind Narayan and Lena Hall
58

Design with Figma, Claude and MCP - An Honest Introduction

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·Sep 29·30 minutes
Christine Vallaure
59

Chat With Your Docs in Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity..

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·Sep 16·30 minutes
Bojan Gasparovic
60

[Live Demo] Local AI via NVIDIA Blackwell versus ChatGPT

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·Sep 16·45 minutes
Jai Bhagat
61

Second Order Thinking For Building Powerful Brands

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·Sep 24·30 minutes
Jean-Louis Rawlence
62

Architect the Enterprise Context Layer for AI Agents

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·60 minutes
Priyanka Vergadia and Austin Kronz
63

Search and AI Career Q&A

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·Sep 18·60 minutes
Doug Turnbull (Maven) and Brian Pedersen
64

How to Turn AI into Your Coach

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·Oct 16·60 minutes
Myles Sutholt
65

Agent Skills 101 - Build AI systems using English

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·60 minutes
Mirza Rahim Baig
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Ace Analytics Interviews with AI

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·Sep 23·60 minutes
Shane Butler, Sravya Madipalli, and Hai Guan
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#1 Designing Agentic AI Systems for Enterprise Use-Cases

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·120 minutes
Aishwarya Reganti and Kiriti Badam
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How to Be Productive with Coding Agents, Beyond Code

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·Sep 30·30 minutes
Stefan Jansen
69

Design Apps 10x Faster in Figma With AI

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·Sep 17·30 minutes
Nima Tahami
70

LinkedIn DOs & DON’Ts For 2026

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·30 minutes
William Arruda
71

Interview Mistakes Costing Product Managers Offers in 2026

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·60 minutes
Shobhit Chugh
72

AI Native Design Systems Masterclass

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·45 minutes
John Rodrigues
73

Claude Agents (Plugins) for User Research

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·30 minutes
Nikki Anderson
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Accelerating Voice Agents from Demo to Production w/ Vapi

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·60 minutes
Kiriti & Aish and Nikhil Gupta & Dhruva Reddy
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FDE Week 1: From a Founding FDE @ Notion and O'Reilly Author

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·Oct 2·30 minutes
Paden Gayle
76

Audit Your Website's AI Visibility With Claude Code

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·45 minutes
Eric Levine
77

RAG Explained: The Architecture Behind Agentic AI Systems

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·30 minutes
Aishwarya Srinivasan and Arvind Narayan
78

Build Your AI Brain in Claude Cowork (No Code)

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·Sep 18·45 minutes
Thaddeus Demeke
79

Mastering Claude Cowork: Become an AI-Native Professional

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·60 minutes
Aishwarya Srinivasan and Arvind Narayan
80

Agentic AI System Design Masterclass

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·60 minutes
Aishwarya Srinivasan, Arvind Narayanamurthy, and Arpit Chaudhary
81

What an AI Agent Really Is: Build One with Claude Code

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·Sep 16·60 minutes
Eric Levine
82

Openhouse, Demo Day + Orientation

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·Sep 16·90 minutes
Sara Davison & Tyler Fisk
83

Claude Code & Cowork in 30 Minutes: For PMs and Leaders

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·Oct 15·30 minutes
Aki Wijesundara and Manu Jayawardana
84

AI Over 50: How to Talk to AI

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·Sep 17·30 minutes
Brett Bouchard
85

AI System Design Interviews at Staff Level (2026)

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·30 minutes
Ehsan Gazar
86

Build the Executive One-Pager That Wins the Room, With AI.

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·Sep 16·30 minutes
Christina Charenkova
87

How to Engineer a Multi-Agent System

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·30 minutes
Stefan Jansen
88

The AI Toolkit for Data Scientists

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·45 minutes
Priyanka Vergadia and Sai Kumar Bysani
89

Build an AI Portfolio That Gets Hired

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·Sep 28·30 minutes
Aki Wijesundara, PhD and Manu Jayawardana
90

How Product Designers Actually Work with AI in 2026

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·45 minutes
Maxime Rabot
91

Stop AI Vibing & Start Spec-Driven Designing with Claude

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·60 minutes
Alex M. Chong
92

Build an App with AI in 30 Minutes

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·Oct 14·30 minutes
Dr. Aki Wijesundara
93

How To Build Visibility on LinkedIn (For Tech Professionals)

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·Sep 25·45 minutes
Mo Akif, Nisha Garg, Katherine Rettura, and Unsa Willis
94

Understanding AI's Environmental Impact

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·Sep 21·30 minutes
Nina Benoit
95

How to Build AI Agents for Creative Campaigns

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·60 minutes
Tahnee Perry and Toyah Perry
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AI System Design for Full Stack Developers

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·Sep 17·30 minutes
Dr. Aki Wijesundara and Manu Jayawardana
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Coding Agents in Production: What Breaks at Scale

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·Sep 24·30 minutes
Dr. Aki Wijesundara and Manu Jayawardana
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GPT-6 Astra: The Hottest AI Model This Week

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·30 minutes
Dr. Aki Wijesundara and Manu Jayawardana
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