Free stuff 0519.10.2026
AI engineer in 8 weeks: a free plan.
LLMClaude APIMCPAgents[From an @levizdev reel]
Median total comp for an ML/AI software engineer in the US is about $250,000 a year (Levels.fyi). You won't start there, but in 8 weeks of free material you can build an agent and a project for interviews. All links below.
01/ Links
- Karpathy — Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPTWeek 1. A 3.5-hour lecture on how language models are built and trained. Free on YouTube.
- Anthropic Academy — Building with the Claude APIWeeks 2–4. Free course: API, prompting, prompt evaluation, tool use, RAG and agentic search, agents. Certificate after the final assessment.
- Anthropic Academy — Introduction to Model Context ProtocolWeek 5. Free course: build your own MCP servers and clients in Python — tools, resources, prompts. Basic Python required.
- Google × Kaggle — 5-Day AI Agents IntensiveWeeks 6–7. Free, self-paced: agents, MCP, memory, Agent Quality and Prototype to Production.
- Levels.fyi — ML/AI engineer pay in the USSource of the number in the reel: median total comp for ML/AI Software Engineers in the US is $250,000.
03/ How to run
- 01Week 1 — Karpathy's lecture + build a simple agent and see where it fails.
- 02Weeks 2–4 — the Claude API course: prompts, then RAG, then tools.
- 03Week 5 — the MCP course: connect your agent to your services (GitHub, Drive, a database).
- 04Weeks 6–7 — the Google × Kaggle intensive: measure your agent's quality and ship it with logging.
- 05Week 8 — portfolio: code on GitHub, a README, a short demo video and a live link — not localhost:3000.
Open for projects
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The prompt is a good start. If it has to live inside a real site, connect to sign-up and be production-ready, I'll build it end-to-end.