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AI Engineering & Agents
50 Days with OpenClaw: The Hype, the Reality, and What Broke
Stand up, secure, and operate a self-hosted personal AI agent, and learn the failure modes that come with shell, file, and browser access.
Intermediate · 4 Weeks · VelvetShark
Agent Harness Engineering
Transform non-deterministic LLMs into reliable, enterprise-grade autonomous systems using deterministic guardrails and tool execution layers.
Beginner to Expert · 4 Weeks · Tejas Kumar
Agentic Engineering and the Future of AI Software Development
Move from manual coding to managing autonomous AI agents and simulated QA swarms for reliable software production.
Beginner to Expert · 5 Weeks · Lenny's Podcast
Building AI Agents That Carry the Work Forward
Operational standards — escalation logic, fallback tasks, assumption documentation, and partial-progress reporting — that turn agents into reliable teammates.
Beginner to Advanced · 1 Week · Victor Quinones
Designing Supervised AI Co-Founder Workflows
Design supervised AI co-founder workflows that connect models, tools, context, and approval gates for startup execution.
Beginner to Advanced · 1 Week · Greg Isenberg
Enable an AI Agent Workforce
Allie K. Miller’s operating model: stop managing agents, enable a Chief of Staff plus specialist directors, and keep the risk tier fixed.
Beginner to Advanced · 1 Week · Greg Isenberg feat. Allie K. Miller
Evaluating and Deploying GPT-5.5
Move from speculative AI testing to production-ready agentic systems by validating GPT-5.5 capability claims.
Beginner to Expert · 4 Weeks · OpenAI
Grok Bot vs the Competition
Evaluate Grok Bot as a consumer multi-agent product: one-install setup, access cost, shared-computer security, and when it beats self-hosted agents.
Intermediate · 1 Week · Nate B Jones
Hermes /goal Autonomous Agent Workflows
Hermes Agent's /goal feature for long-running autonomous workflows, including VPS setup, measurable criteria, and Codex CLI delegation.
Beginner to Advanced · 1 Week · David Ondrej
Hermes Agent + DeepSeek V4 = 100X Cheaper
Build a cheaper multi-model AI agent system by orchestrating Hermes Agent with DeepSeek V4, Claude Opus, and ChatGPT.
Intermediate · 1 Week · Jack Roberts
Hermes Agent: Building an Agentic OS
Install Hermes Agent, build a Pantheon of model-specific personas, connect Obsidian + Claude Code memory, and ship a Telegram-driven Agentic OS.
Beginner to Advanced · 1 Week · Jack Roberts
Hermes Agent: Zero to Personal AI Assistant
Set up Hermes Agent as a persistent personal AI assistant on a VPS with Telegram, memory, skills, GitHub backup, and scheduled automations.
Beginner to Advanced · 1 Week · Nate Herk | AI Automation
Jack Dorsey's Buzz: Multi-Agent Teams
Architect multi-agent teams, connect models and harnesses, optimize token economics, and run human-agent collaboration in Buzz.
Beginner to Advanced · 1 Week · The Startup Project / Jack Dorsey
OpenClaw Agents in Production
Move from simple prompting to deploying production-ready memory and reasoning architectures for autonomous AI agents.
Beginner to Expert · 6 Weeks · Peter Steinberger
The AI Inflection Point
Transform from a manual code writer into an AI software director who ships robust, test-backed projects in under a week.
Beginner to Expert · 4 Weeks · Simon Willison
The Gauntlet Loop: Builder-Critic Prompting
Give an agent a named quality bar, split work into builder/critic pairs, and keep looping until a blind comparison wins.
Beginner to Expert · 4 Weeks · Jay E | RoboNuggets
Why Agentic Systems Need Ontologies
A four-week class on grounding AI agents in ontologies and knowledge graphs — the neuro-symbolic approach to reliable agentic systems.
Beginner to Expert · 4 Weeks · Frank Coyle (UC Berkeley)
Why Graph Engineering Will 10x Your Claude/Codex
Design graph-based AI workflows with Claude, Codex, loops, validators, handoffs, and human approval gates.
Beginner to Expert · 4 Weeks · Graph engineering source lecture
xAI Grok 4.6 & Grok Bot: Coding, Benchmarks & Knowledge Work
Fact-check Grok 4.6, Cursor, and Grok Bot: official evals, cost-per-task, and when the model wins knowledge work vs. SWE.
Intermediate · 1 Week · Matt Wolfe
14 courses
Coding & Developer Tools
100 Hours of AntiGravity: From Zero to Production Application
A 100-hour masterclass taking engineers from AntiGravity SDK core to a production multi-agent capstone application.
Beginner to Advanced · 1 Week · FutureTranz Development Team
5 Claude Code MCP Servers You Need To Be Using
Set up 5 high-leverage MCP servers so Claude Code can search, browse, and automate real tools in minutes.
Intermediate · 1 week seminar · Sean Kochel
8 OpenCode Use Cases You Can Copy
An eight-use-case tour of OpenCode, sst's open-source terminal coding agent, from lead-gen to pitch decks.
Intermediate · 1 week seminar · David Ondrej
AI Coding Principles
Learn Principled Agentic Engineering to move from unpredictable vibe coding to systematic planning and validation.
Beginner to PhD-Level · 6 Weeks · Cole Medin
Claude Code /goal: Build Complete AI Apps
Use Claude Code and Codex /goal workflows to build a full application prototype from a PRD, roadmap, and design spec.
Beginner to Advanced · 1 week seminar · Chris Ashby / Build Great Products
Claude Code Just Got an Agent Dashboard
Manage multiple coding-agent sessions from one terminal interface and use long-running goals responsibly.
Intermediate · 1 Week · Nate Herk | AI Automation
Claude Code Video-Watching Skill with Frames and Transcript
Build AI video-understanding workflows that combine extracted frames, timestamped transcripts, and Claude Code-style skills.
Intermediate · 1 Week · Brad | AI & Automation
Codex 2026: Idea to Deployed App
Use Codex to build and deploy web applications in less than an hour, even as a complete beginner.
Beginner to Expert · 6 Weeks · David Ondrej
Cursor Origin: An Agentic Git Forge
Evaluate Cursor Origin as an agent-first Git forge: machine-speed commits, stacked PRs, GitHub sync vs migration, and shared-computer security.
Beginner to Advanced · 1 Week · Cursor Origin source review
High-Leverage Claude Code Skills
Install and audit high-leverage Claude Code Skills from public GitHub repositories to unlock agentic superpowers.
Beginner to Expert · 1 Week · Jack Roberts
Library Meta-Skill for Private Skills, Agents, and Prompts
Use a library-style meta-skill to distribute private AI skills, agents, and prompts across repos, devices, and teams.
Intermediate · 1 Week · IndyDevDan
Master Claude Code: Turn AI into 24/7 Employees
Transform Claude Code into an autonomous 24/7 AI employee using CLAUDE.md operating manuals, Plan Mode briefs, and scheduled routines.
Beginner to Advanced · 1 Week · Greg Isenberg
Mastering Claude Code
Transform your development workflow from manual task execution to fully autonomous agentic coding in your terminal.
Beginner to Expert · 1 Week · Anthropic
2 courses
Prompt & Context Engineering
$2.4M of Prompt Engineering Hacks in 53 Mins
A 53-minute distillation of six API-playground prompt-engineering moves — system prompts, concision, few-shot, structured outputs — that turn ChatGPT and Claude from chat toys into production workhorses.
Beginner to Advanced · 1 week seminar · Nick Saraev
5 courses
Data & Machine Learning
DeepSeek V4
Move from expensive closed APIs to cost-effective, self-hosted frontier-tier models in under an hour.
Beginner to Expert · 4 Weeks · deepseek-ai
Firecrawl: Web Data for LLM Apps
Turn dynamic websites into clean, LLM-ready markdown, bypassing anti-bot defenses and scaling with worker queues.
Beginner to Expert · 6 Weeks · Firecrawl
Introduction to Google Gemma 4
Build private, local-first agentic applications with Gemma 4 on mobile or workstations and deploy them to the cloud.
Beginner to Expert · 6 Weeks · Google DeepMind
Python REST API Integration Foundations
Call REST APIs with Python: HTTP requests, JSON, authentication, error handling, and API-powered automation.
Beginner to Advanced · 4 Weeks · Multiple YouTube Python/API educators
6 courses
Infrastructure & Security
AI Cybercrime Risk and Defense in the LLM Era
Why AI can amplify cybercrime risk and how teams strengthen prevention, monitoring, governance, and incident readiness.
Intermediate · 1 Week · Matthew Berman
Abacus Claw vs. Mac Mini OpenClaw
Hosted vs self-hosted personal AI agents: hardware, cost, security, maintenance, and messaging-app integration.
Beginner · 1 week seminar · Alex Ziskind
Agentic Bash Security for Claude Code and Pi Agent
Reduce production risk from AI coding agents with shell access using a five-level Bash security model.
Advanced · 1 Week · IndyDevDan
Air-Gapped AI: Local Models, Data Privacy & Compliance
Run AI entirely on your own hardware — no cloud, no leaks. From your first local model to LoRA fine-tuning and enterprise data-boundary architecture.
Beginner to Expert · 4 Weeks · Local models source lecture
Gemma 4 Local on Apple MLX
Deploy Gemma 4 locally on macOS using Apple's MLX framework for ultra-fast private inference.
Beginner to Expert · 6 Weeks · Apple
10 courses
AI Business & Strategy
AI Coding Tool Wars and Vendor Lock-In Strategy
A strategic class on the AI coding-tool market and how to build portable projects that avoid vendor lock-in.
Intermediate · 1 Week · Nate Herk | AI Automation
AI Course Production Agency for Ghost Experts
Build an ethical AI-assisted agency that turns expert knowledge into branded video courses.
Intermediate · 1 Week · AI Founders
AI Forward Deployed Engineer: From Beginner to Opportunity Path
A 6-week practical course on becoming an AI Forward Deployed Engineer through discovery, prototyping, and executive communication.
Beginner to Advanced · 6 Weeks · FDE: The $1M/Year AI Job Explained
Claude and the Enterprise AI Harness
Why Claude and frontier AI agents are becoming a Wall Street and enterprise strategy issue, and how deployment harnesses turn models into usable systems.
Intermediate · 6 Weeks · Wes Roth
Karpathy’s 2026 AI Startup Playbook
Translate Karpathy-inspired AI frameworks into a 2026 playbook for building AI-native products with verifiable value.
Intermediate · 1 Week · Rob Shocks
Marketing Agents Are Too Good Now
Learn what a real marketing agent is, then map Airbyte + ClickHouse + Meta Ads into a publish/kill/promote loop.
Intermediate · 1 week seminar · Greg Isenberg / Cody Schneider
No One Is Prepared for What's Coming with AI
Tony Robbins on the coming AI labor revolution: what gets displaced, why retooling matters, and how to prepare your mindset, family, and business.
Beginner to Advanced · 1 Week · Tony Robbins / The Diary Of A CEO
Sam Altman: How to Build the Future
Turn Sam Altman’s Startup Class into a practical founder playbook you can apply immediately.
Beginner to Advanced · 6 Weeks · Sam Altman / Stanford CS183B
The Router Thesis: Organizations as Distributed Systems
Apply distributed systems principles to corporate architecture and turn hierarchical bureaucracy into high-throughput routing networks.
Beginner to Expert · 6 Weeks · Harry DeMott
The Solo AI Business: AI Tools Assessment Playbook
Package a $999 AI Tools Assessment, four-phase fulfillment system, upsell ladder, and zero-audience client acquisition plays.
Beginner to Advanced · 1 week seminar · Greg Isenberg with Corey Ganim
2 courses
Content Marketing & Media
Viral YouTube Titles
Use vidIQ's seven psychological YouTube title strategies to turn low-performing videos into click-generating assets.
Beginner to Expert · 4 Weeks · vidIQ
YouTube Lead Generation — Passive Prospecting
Build a searchable YouTube lead-generation engine for local real estate and service businesses using Levi Lascsak's passive prospecting model.
Beginner to Advanced · 4 Weeks · Levi Lascsak / Passive Prospecting
2 courses
Foundations & Computer Science
Clean Code
Turn messy, unmaintainable code into highly readable prose and reduce WTFs per minute in peer review.
Beginner to Expert · 6 Weeks · Robert C. Martin
Python Programming Foundations — From Beginner to Advanced
A practical Python programming class from first principles to applied coding workflows for automation, data handling, and AI-ready development.
Beginner to Advanced · 6 Weeks · Multiple YouTube Python educators
2 courses
Governance & Responsible AI
Claude for Legal 2.0: Plugins and Connectors
Anthropic's Claude for Legal 2.0 — practice-area plug-ins, MCP connectors, the cold-start interview pattern, and live legal workflow demos.
Intermediate · 1 Week · Liam Barnes
Nuclear Stockpile Stewardship and Policy Trade-offs
Analyze plutonium pit production and stockpile stewardship principles in US nuclear modernization policy.
Beginner to Expert · 1 Week · Union of Concerned Scientists
3 courses
Productivity & Learning Systems
Claude Code and Obsidian Knowledge Base
Master the LLM Wiki pattern to transform raw documents into a persistent, self-updating personal knowledge base.
Beginner to Expert · 1 week seminar · Andrej Karpathy
NotebookLM 101
A 4-week beginner introduction to Google NotebookLM. Go from zero to uploading sources, generating Audio Overviews and study guides, and building a personal knowledge notebook.
Beginner · 4 Weeks · Jeff Su / Google NotebookLM