Pre-course
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What AI engineering actually is
The discipline of building reliable systems on top of models you did not train - the reliability layer, not the model itself.
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Set up your environment
Python 3.11+, Cursor or Claude Code, OpenAI and Anthropic keys - confirm a hello-world FastAPI app and one successful model call.
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Seed your capstone
Pick a system that answers questions or does tasks over a body of knowledge you care about - your Week 1 build is its first capability.
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