One path that replaces 50 saved tabs and 12 half-started repos
Towards AI Academy cohort kicks off in 48 hours: learn what to build and how.
This week, Dario Amodei’s essay put words to what many teams are quietly bumping up against: the models are maturing faster than the builders. That’s why so many LLM projects keep dying in the same spot.
In 48 hours (Feb 1, 2026), we’re running a live cohort kickoff call that closes this exact gap with a production-ready plan: what to build first, what to measure, and how to ship LLM systems that actually hold up.
How to join the kickoff: enroll in any Towards AI course, and the cohort link lands in your welcome email.
Access the Cohort by Enrolling!
If your goal is to go from fundamentals to production habits and full-stack execution, this is the most straightforward track we recommend:
10-Hour Crash Course → Expert LLM Developer (Bundle)
It combines our most adopted courses with our bestselling book, and it’s sequenced like a real build path, so your effort compounds.
Start the LLM Developer track (bundle + cohort access)
Here’s how the bundle pulls you out of demo-land:
1) Guesswork, replaced by a mental model.
10-Hour LLM Fundamentals (video) gives you the core understanding: how LLMs behave, how to build with them, how to evaluate outputs, and how to maintain robust solutions as requirements shift.
2) Fragility, replaced by production discipline.
Building LLMs for Production gives you timeless principles for building dependable systems: how to measure quality, debug failures, and iterate without rewriting the whole app every time something breaks.
3) “I can’t ship this,” replaced by full-stack skill.
Full Stack AI Engineering is where you put it all together end-to-end and ship a real product: data, retrieval, prompting/agents, evaluation, and deployment.
If you’ve been circling this space for months, the risk isn’t “starting and failing.” The risk is staying in demo-land while the bar for real LLM skill quietly becomes: can you ship something that holds up?
Cohort kickoff is in 48 hours (Feb 1, 2026). If you want the end-to-end framework we use in enterprise projects, start with the kickoff.
Solid curation. Having all these resources in one path saves so much time and decision fatigue.