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Creators · Ages 14–17
The full LLM pipeline, agentic AI with OpenClaw + Ollama, subscription-tier literacy, and a real capstone.
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Dive into the equations that governed the last five years of AI progress, and the fresh questions they raise now that pure scaling is hitting walls.
Codex CLI is OpenAI's terminal coding agent. It runs locally, supports MCP, and ships a codex cloud mode for background tasks. Let's install it and compare it honestly to Claude Code.
Everything comes together. Design, code, test, secure, and ship a production-quality agent with open-source code you can fork today.
Flux Pro vs. Flux Dev. Midjourney vs. Stable Diffusion. The choice affects product architecture, cost, and what's possible. Here's the honest tradeoff.
Going beyond the chat window. When you'd reach for the API, how pricing actually works, and how to start building. The API is where AI becomes a building block The consumer app is the most polished version of an AI experience.
Assemble the four or five AI tools that actually belong in your daily life. A tested template for the stack that earns its keep.
Perplexity Comet is a full web browser that treats AI as a first-class citizen. It reads, summarizes, and acts on pages you visit.
Fusion generative design explores millions of topology options. nTopology and Ansys simulate in hours what used to take weeks. The ME still owns manufacturability.
NVIDIA GR00T, Physical Intelligence π0, and Figure Helix took the vision-language-action paradigm from research paper to factory floor. This is the hottest hardware-software frontier.
Cursor forked VS Code and rebuilt it around AI. It's now the de facto AI IDE for serious engineers. Deep dive on what makes it different, the Composer agent, and the $500/month enterprise pricing.
Windsurf (from Codeium, acquired by OpenAI in 2025) competes with Cursor via Cascade, its autonomous agent. Deep look at where it's ahead, where it's behind, and the post-acquisition future.
Claude Code runs in your terminal, operates on your actual file system, and treats your whole repo as context. Deep look at why senior engineers prefer it to IDE-based AI.
Codex CLI is OpenAI's open-source terminal coding agent. Look at how it compares to Claude Code, what it does uniquely, and why it matters to non-Anthropic shops.
Zed is a Rust-native code editor that integrates AI collaboration and pair-coding at the architecture level. Look at its strengths as a lightweight Cursor alternative.
Framer's AI turns a prompt into a publishable website with real code. Look at who's using it to ship portfolios and small-biz sites in 2026.
Zapier built the integration platform that connects 7,000+ apps. Zapier Agents and Zapier Central are its attempt to add AI agents on top. Deep look at where it works and where it breaks.
Classes let you bundle data with the behavior that operates on it. You'll build a class for a real thing and use AI to refactor it with confidence.
The world's most influential 'leaderboard' for AI is not a test — it is humans voting blindly. Here is how that works.
When the test questions quietly end up in the training data, scores lie. Here is how it happens and how to catch it.
Evaluating models that see, hear, and read at once requires new kinds of tests. Here are the ones that matter.
Prompts are code. Code needs tests. Here is how to stop silently breaking your system each time you tweak a prompt.
Benchmarks measure what you ask. Red-teaming measures what breaks. Learn to test for failure modes, not capabilities. For AI, red teams probe for harmful outputs, jailbreaks, bias, leakage of training data, and dangerous capabilities.
Real data is expensive, private, or scarce. Synthetic data is generated by models themselves. It is rapidly becoming as important as scraped data.
Thousands of companies you have never heard of trade your personal data every second. Understanding this invisible market is understanding modern privacy. Brokers and AI training Much training data for specialized models (ad targeting, credit scoring, risk assessment) comes from brokers.
Pandas is the Python library that made data science what it is today. Ten verbs get you through 90 percent of day-to-day data work.
These two formats are the bread and butter of data interchange. Handling them well means handling edge cases well.
AI writes Java for you faster than your teacher can say 'Scanner'. Using it without cheating yourself out of the class is the real skill.