IProgram

AI Foundations

The working vocabulary of modern machine intelligence.

  • 101Course

    The History of AI

    Seventy years of promises, winters, and revivals.

    21 lessons·Foundation
    OriginsSymbolic AI and Expert SystemsStatistical learningThe deep-learning revolutionThe foundation-model era
  • 102Course

    How LLMs Work

    The mechanism, in institutional detail.

    31 lessons·Foundation
    Tokens and representationsThe transformer blockTrainingInferenceWhat models can and cannot do
  • 103Course

    Prompt Engineering

    The applied craft.

    14 lessons·Foundation
    The techniquesStructured promptsDiscipline
  • 104Course

    Retrieval-Augmented Generation

    The pattern that made LLMs useful.

    13 lessons·Foundation
    The patternRetrieval infrastructureRetrieval pipelines
  • 105Course

    Agents

    Systems that plan, remember, and act.

    13 lessons·Foundation
    The patternMulti-agent and long-horizonFrameworks and reality
  • 106Course

    AI APIs

    The commercial and open interfaces.

    14 lessons·Foundation
    The frontier providersAggregators and open modelsWorking with APIs
  • 107Course

    Local AI and Local Models

    Running intelligence on your own hardware.

    11 lessons·Foundation
    Why localQuantizationInference engines
  • 108Course

    AI Productivity

    AI as personal infrastructure.

    8 lessons·Foundation
    Knowledge workDiscipline
  • 109Course

    AI-Assisted Coding

    The dominant early professional use.

    5 lessons·Foundation
    The habitTeam norms
  • 110Course

    Workflow Automation

    AI as a business process.

    5 lessons·Foundation
    Choosing what to automateDesigning the workflow
  • 111Course

    Research with AI

    How to use AI as a research assistant.

    4 lessons·Foundation
    The habitsA research assistant, well used
  • 112Course

    AI in Business — Foundations

    The operating decisions.

    5 lessons·Foundation
    The decisionsThe economics