Introduction
Explore foundational AI engineering concepts tailored for Staff+ engineers. Learn to treat prompts as contracts, design model ecosystems, and build agentic workflows that empower teams and accelerate delivery, preparing you to leverage AI responsibly and effectively in complex engineering roles.
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Five years ago, you could still roll your eyes at AI and call it “hype.” Not anymore.
If you can’t wield AI effectively, you’re competing with people who can, and those people are shipping faster, breaking less, and earning what used to belong to the only one who understood the legacy monster.
This module shows you how to approach AI at a Staff+ level.
You’ll learn how to:
Treat prompts as contracts.
Use retrieval to ground answers instead of hoping the model “remembers.”
Design a model ecosystem that assigns the right models to the right tasks.
Design agentic workflows with orchestration and guardrails.
John loves using AI. He already automated himself with a chatbot. Unfortunately, it learned his favorite skill—dodging hard questions. You, on the other hand, will use AI to scale and empower your team.