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llm-application-engineering — week 6
$npx create-ai-app course-project
✓ Eval set ready (42 scenarios)
✓ RAG pipeline wired — pgvector
✓ Observability on — OpenTelemetry
$npm run eval
accuracy 0.91 · p95 latency 840ms · $0.004/request
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Hours of lessons
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Course programs
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Completion satisfaction
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Featured Courses

Every module ships with a working codebase

FUNDAMENTALS TO PRODUCTION

LLM Application Engineering

From prompt design to streaming interfaces, token economics to failure handling — you build an LLM-backed product end to end. Every module ships with a working codebase.

  • Beginner
  • 8 weeks
  • 42 lessons

TOOL USE & ORCHESTRATION

AI Agent Development

Tool calling, MCP, multi-step planning, and human-in-the-loop approval. Not brittle demo agents — observable agent systems that survive real traffic.

  • Advanced
  • 6 weeks
  • 34 lessons

RETRIEVAL QUALITY FIRST

RAG and Data Engineering

Chunking strategies, hybrid search, reranking, and retrieval evaluation. We build a RAG pipeline that turns "why did it answer wrong?" into a measurable question.

  • Intermediate
  • 5 weeks
  • 28 lessons

THE MOST COMPLETE PROGRAM

AI in Production: Evals & Observability

Eval sets, offline and online evaluation, regression tracking, cost and latency budgets. Ship knowing exactly what breaks when you swap the model.

  • Advanced
  • 10 weeks
  • 56 lessons

The Stack We Build On

OpenAIAnthropicGoogle GeminiMistralLlamaHugging FacevLLMOllamaGroqTogether AIModalReplicate
LangChainLlamaIndexDSPyPydantic AIVercel AI SDKMCPLangfuseLangSmithBraintrustWeights & BiasesRagasOpenTelemetry
pgvectorQdrantPineconeWeaviateChromaNeo4jPostgreSQLRedisFastAPINext.jsDockerKubernetes

Learning Roadmap

Four stops from zero to production

  1. Fundamentals

    Token economics, context management, structured output. You learn what a model call costs and where it quietly goes wrong.

    LLM Application Engineering

  2. Retrieval

    Connecting your own data: chunking, hybrid search, reranking, and retrieval evaluation.

    RAG and Data Engineering

  3. Action

    Agents that use tools, plan, and ask a human when it matters. MCP keeps the tool layer in one place.

    AI Agent Development

  4. Production

    Eval sets, regression tracking, cost and latency budgets, observability. This is the part where you ship.

    AI in Production: Evals & Observability

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Real feedback from real students

We had argued for six months about why our RAG pipeline answered badly. After the eval module it turned out the problem was not chunking — it was that we had no reranking at all. Accuracy went up 31% in two weeks.
Elena FischerSenior Backend Engineer · FintechRAG and Data Engineering
The "shrink the agent, grow the tool" framing saved our product. We cut 14 tools down to 4 and error rates dropped to a third.
Marcus OyelaranFounder · SaaSAI Agent Development
Most courses stay at the surface. Here the very first lesson went straight into token budgets and latency math. That was exactly the level I was looking for.
Priya RaghavanML Engineer · E-commerceLLM Application Engineering
I rolled the observability module out to my team as-is. We now see what a model swap breaks before it reaches production.
Tom BradshawStaff Engineer · TelecomAI in Production
The fine-tuning workshop opened with a decision tree for "do you actually need this?". It saved us months of GPU spend.
Sofia MarchettiData Scientist · HealthcareFine-Tuning Workshop
I enrolled my whole team in the cohort. Two months later our first agent system is in production, approval flows included.
Daniel OkaforCTO · LogisticsAI Agent Development
The streaming interface lesson paid for the course on its own. We halved perceived latency for our users.
Hannah LindqvistProduct Engineer · MediaLLM Application Engineering
After the MCP workshop we consolidated our internal tools behind a single server. Wiring up a new agent is a one-day job now.
Ayşe DemirTech Lead · BankingMCP Server Workshop
Recordings stay available, so I came back three months later and rewatched the eval section from scratch. That access model is worth a lot.
Chris NolanIndie HackerAI in Production
The caching strategy from the cost-budget module cut our monthly bill by 44% without giving up any quality.
Mei TanakaPlatform Engineer · GamingAI in Production
My favourite part is that every module ends with a working repo. You learn from code, not from slides.
Rafael DuarteSoftware Architect · Public SectorLLM Application Engineering
A production problem I posted in the community channel turned into an extra lesson the same day. I have not seen that anywhere else.
Nadia HaddadAI Engineer · RetailRAG and Data Engineering

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ABOUT

Taught by Burak Emre Kadan

I have spent years working with teams pushing AI features into production. Everything I teach either worked in a real system or broke in one.

The goal is not to tour popular libraries. It is to show which decision is right when, what it costs, and how to measure it. That is why every module ends with a working repo and an eval set.

Experience
12+ years in software, 5 in AI systems
Focus
LLM products, agent architectures, evaluation
Format
Live cohort + lifetime recording access

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