Cohort 1

Principal Architect

Karthikeyan Dhandapani

Operations professionals who optimize processes and manage day-to-day business functions.

Broad professional audience — content relevant across many roles and functions.

Startup founders building new businesses, from MVP to scale.

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 technical literacy — understanding APIs, databases, system architecture, and engineering tradeoffs.

Automating professional workflows with AI tools — productivity, operations, and task automation.

Designing and optimizing the context window for LLM applications — prompt structure, memory, and information retrieval.

Model Context Protocol — building tool integrations and server connections for AI agents.

AI Founders & Engineers

Aish & Arvind

AI Engineers | Building & Teaching @ The Gen Academy

Become an AI Native Professional

<h3>Why I enrolled</h3>

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<h3>What I’ll apply</h3>
<p class="p2-tall">I'm most excited about moving beyond using AI as just an assistant to making it an integral part of how I think, design, build, and solve problems.</p><p class="p2-tall">The workshop opened up exciting possibilities for combining <strong>ChatGPT, Cowork, Codex, and Dot</strong> to accelerate research, architecture exploration, prototyping, and everyday workflows.</p><p class="p2-tall">As an architect, I'm particularly interested in putting these capabilities into practice to tackle real-world enterprise challenges, automate repetitive work, and spend more time on higher-value engineering and strategic thinking.</p><p class="p2-tall"><strong>My biggest takeaway: becoming AI-native isn't just about learning new tools — it's about fundamentally rethinking how we work and what we can accomplish with AI.</strong> Excited to experiment, build, and keep learning!</p>
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