The full curriculum
11 lessons live now. 59 exercises. Every concept taught through a live playground, not slides.
Concepts
39 exercisesHello, Intelligence
FreeYour first conversation with an LLM. Autocomplete, knowledge retrieval, creativity, and code generation.
The Currency of Tokens
FreeHow LLMs read and write in chunks. Token limits, costs, and the difference between hard and soft constraints.
Hallucinations & Sycophancy
When the model lies confidently, agrees with your delusions, and validates your worst ideas.
Safety, Ethics & Alignment
Guardrails, jailbreaking, implicit bias, and the values embedded in AI models.
Engineering
20 exercisesTemperature: Consistency
Using low temperature for deterministic, reliable outputs. Data extraction, classification, math.
Temperature: Creativity
Using high temperature for brainstorming, storytelling, and creative diversity.
System Instructions
The constitution of your model. Personas, formatting, guardrails, and scope control.
Zero-Shot Prompting
Asking the model to perform tasks without examples. When it works and when it doesn't.
Few-Shot Prompting
Teaching the model by example. The single most powerful prompting technique.
Chain of Thought
Making models reason step by step. The trick that fixes most logic failures.
Stop Sequences
Controlling when generation ends. Preventing the model from speaking for the user.
Advanced
8 exercisesTop-K Sampling
Coming SoonLimiting the selection pool of tokens. Greedy decoding vs wide-net generation.
Top-P (Nucleus Sampling)
Coming SoonDynamic vocabulary control using cumulative probability.
Formatting via Prompting
Coming SoonGetting CSV, XML, Markdown tables, and structured output without special configs.
Native JSON Mode
Coming SoonGuaranteed valid JSON output using responseMimeType. Essential for developers.
Vision: Description
Coming SoonMultimodal input. Upload an image and have the model describe what it sees.
Vision: Reasoning
Coming SoonGoing beyond description. Asking the model to reason about image context.
Coding
1 exercisesCoding Specialist
Coming SoonUsing specialized models for code generation. React, Python, debugging.
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