AI Engineering, Visually Explained
Design and ship production-grade LLM systems, not demos
Nine diagram-first modules covering embeddings, structured outputs, RAG, agents and tool calling, fine-tuning, inference optimization, and LLMOps, finishing with full AI system design case studies.
All-Access Lifetime Best value
$299This course + System Design + all 7 upcoming courses + every future course, one payment.2 courses separately: $238 · Lifetime covers all 9 current and coming courses.
Founding prices: Lifetime goes to $399 and single courses to $149 when Case Studies + DSA launch.
30-day money-back guarantee* Not for you? Contact us within 30 days for a refund.
*Subject to our refund policy
By the end of this course you'll be able to…
- ✓Approach any LLM product design with a clear framework
- ✓Build reliable RAG pipelines and know why retrieval fails
- ✓Design agentic workflows with tool calling that don't fall over
- ✓Decide when to prompt, when to fine-tune, and what it costs
- ✓Cut latency and cost with caching, batching and smarter inference
- ✓Run LLMs in production with gateways, guardrails and evals
Curriculum
9 modules · ~2.5 hours of animated whiteboard-style video
01Free lesson ▶~19 min · no card needed
How to Approach AI System Design
A framework for scoping, evaluating and designing LLM-powered systems.
- ~17 min
Representations and Embeddings
Included with the courseTokens, vectors, similarity search and what embeddings actually capture.
- ~16 min
Structured Outputs and Schema Enforcement
Included with the courseJSON mode, constrained decoding, validation and retries.
- ~17 min
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Included with the courseChunking, hybrid search, reranking and evaluating retrieval.
- ~16 min
Agentic Workflows and Tool Calling
Included with the coursePlanning loops, tool schemas, memory and failure handling.
- ~16 min
Fine-Tuning and Customization
Included with the courseWhen to fine-tune, LoRA, data prep, and the cost trade-offs.
- ~18 min
Latency and Inference Optimization
Included with the courseStreaming, KV caches, batching, quantization and model routing.
- ~16 min
LLM Gateways, Guardrails, and LLMOps
Included with the courseGateways, rate limits, guardrails, observability and evals.
- ~17 min
AI Case Studies
Included with the courseEnd-to-end designs for real AI products.
What's included
- ✓9 animated video modules (~2.5 hours)
- ✓9 module quizzes (54 questions), every answer explained, wrong ones too
- ✓9 printable cheat sheets: each module's key ideas and numbers on one page
- ✓Certificate of completion with a shareable link and Add to LinkedIn, when you finish every lesson and pass every quiz (70%+)
- ✓Lifetime access, on any device
Not sure yet?
Take the free 8-question skill check
About 2 minutes. Instant score, explanations for every answer, and which modules cover what you missed. No email needed.
Start the skill check →Who it's for
- ✓Anyone who wants to understand how real AI systems are built, and level up
- ✓Developers at any stage, from first job to senior and staff, moving into AI / LLM product work
- ✓Career switchers and self-taught developers who want to build real LLM applications
- ✓Tech leads making build-vs-buy LLM decisions, and anyone prepping for AI system design interviews
Taught by
The Coding Gopher
I make animated, whiteboard-style explainers on The Coding Gopher YouTube channel. These courses are the long-form, structured version: every concept animated step by step, no slides full of bullet points.
Pricing
Choose your plan
Single course
One course, yours forever
One-time payment
Goes to $149 when Case Studies + DSA launch.
- Lifetime access to one course
- All 9 modules + future updates
- 30-day money-back guarantee*
- Not included: Upcoming courses not included
All-Access Annual
Every course, billed yearly
$12.42/mo, billed yearly
Goes to $199/yr for new members when Case Studies + DSA launch.
Both courses for $89 less than buying them separately (first year)
- Both live courses (18 modules)
- The 7 upcoming courses as they launch, while subscribed
- Bonus: The System Design Visual Guide (98-page PDF)
- Cancel renewal anytime from the billing portal
- 30-day money-back guarantee*
All-Access Lifetime
Everything, forever. Pay once.
One-time payment · founding price, locked in for life
Goes to $399 when Case Studies + DSA launch.
Both live courses + all 7 upcoming courses + every course after that.
2 courses · $238 if bought separately, + every future course. Costs less than Annual from year 3.
- Both live courses (18 modules)
- All 7 upcoming courses the day each launches
- Every course we release after that, too
- Bonus: The System Design Visual Guide (98-page PDF)
- Pay once. No subscription, no renewals
- 30-day money-back guarantee*
All prices in USD · Secure checkout by Stripe (cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay) · Promo codes accepted · 30-day money-back guarantee*
*Subject to our refund policy
Included with All-Access
All 7 upcoming courses, and every one after them, at no extra cost.
Lifetime: pay once and every future course unlocks automatically the day it launches. Annual: included while subscribed. Single-course purchases don't include future courses.
30-day money-back guarantee*
Not for you? Send a refund request through our contact form within 30 days. No hard feelings.
*Subject to our refund policyFAQ
Questions, answered
What exactly do I get?
Each course is 9 animated, whiteboard-style video modules (Module 1 is free to watch), with lifetime access and every future update to that course. All-Access Lifetime gives you System Design and AI Engineering today plus all 7 upcoming courses as they launch, for one payment. Watch in any modern browser on your laptop, tablet or phone.
Who is this for?
Anyone who wants to understand how real systems work and level up: from your first job to senior and staff, career switchers and self-taught developers, and anyone preparing for a system design interview. Everything is built up visually, step by step, and interview prep is built in.
How is this different from your free YouTube videos?
The YouTube videos are standalone explainers on one topic each. The courses are a structured path: Module 1 gives you a framework and every later module plugs into it, each topic goes deeper than a short video can, and each course ends with worked case studies, designed end to end. You get an ordered curriculum instead of a recommendation feed, and your progress is saved across devices.
How long does it take?
System Design is 9 modules, about 3 hours of video; AI Engineering is 9 modules, about 2.5 hours of video. Go at your own pace: there are no deadlines, and single courses and All-Access Lifetime never expire.
Will it help with interviews?
It's built around interview frameworks: Module 1 of each course is a repeatable approach for the design round, later modules cover the trade-offs interviewers probe, and each course finishes with full case studies. We can't promise an outcome. You still need to practise out loud, and the courses show you what to practise.
What if it's not for me?
You're covered by our 30-day money-back guarantee*: if it's not for you, send a refund request through the contact form within 30 days. *Subject to our refund policy.
Read the refund policy →Can my company pay?
Yes. Buy 3 or more team seats on the pricing page (3–9 seats are 20% off per seat, 10+ are 30% off) and you get one invite link per teammate. Every purchase comes with a Stripe receipt in USD, and your dashboard's Billing & receipts page keeps them. If your finance team needs anything else, use the contact form.
See team pricing →How do I sign in, and what if I lose access?
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