AI Foundations

The working vocabulary of modern machine intelligence.

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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