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From Developer to
job-ready AI Engineer
in record time!

"The AI Engineer will likely be the highest-demand engineering job of the decade."
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First course AI Engineering Foundations is launching soon!

Six modules, about ten hours of video.

MODULE 01
What is AI engineering

Together we find out what AI engineering really means - based on text-book definitions, but also based on recent real-world job postings for AI Engineers.

MODULE 02
How LLMs work

Tokens, context windows and everything about the prbabilistic nature of LLMs

MODULE 03
Working with LLM APIs

Prompting, streaming, structured outputs, function calling. Patterns that hold up in production.

MODULE 04
Evaluations

Writing evals, measuring regressions, and shipping AI features with confidence.

MODULE 05
Observability

Tracing LLM calls, cost monitoring, debugging non-deterministic systems.

MODULE 06
Deployment

Rate limits, fallbacks, caching — shipping AI apps people rely on.

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Focus on the fundamentals, not the hype.

Lukas Lechner
Founder · Pragmatic AI Academy

Meet your instructor.

Lukas Lechner

I'm Lukas Lechner— an AI Engineer and Educator. I've already spent a decade shipping software and teaching more than 12,000+ engineers. Now I focus on building applications on top of LLMs, and I teach what I wish I'd had: a pragmatic, no-hype path from Developer to job-ready AI Engineer.

RoleAI Engineer · Educator · FounderBased inAustria 🇦🇹FocusFundamentals over hype · quality over quantityKPIDevelopers transformed into AI Engineers