AI Building, Automation, and Agents — Checkpoints
Read the checkpoint before starting a level. It defines what proficiency will require and prevents the modules from feeling like unrelated content consumption.
Small AI Prototype
Deliver a bounded vertical slice with solution contract, architecture, structured model interaction, validation, human review, safe failure, tests, security notes, and reproducible documentation.
Evaluated AI Solution
Build a grounded, tool-enabled workflow or constrained agent. Include retrieval and generation tests, permission controls, approval-gated action, event traces, evaluation harness, and failure report.
Production-Readiness Package
Produce production architecture, reliability controls, threat model, adversarial tests, cost/performance experiment, lifecycle governance, runbook, rollback, monitoring, and a candid go/conditional/no-go recommendation.