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Course Roadmap

Course Roadmap

Phase 1: Foundations - Why AI is different - How LLMs work - Tokens, context, attention - Mental models

Phase 2: Context Engineering - Artifact-first workflows - Retrieval - Memory - Context compilation

Phase 3: AI Engineering - Agents - Software development - Research systems - Evaluation

Phase 4: Mastery - Governance - Economics - Leadership - Future directions