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AI System Design for Curious Beginners

For PMs, designers, and founders who want to reason confidently about AI products without writing a line of code.

4.1 (92 ratings) Created by Priya Nair
Beginner 30 lessons 9h 12m Updated Jul 2026 English
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What you'll learn

Understand how modern AI systems are built and deployed
Learn the core building blocks of AI-powered applications
Explore data, models, and inference without heavy math
Reason about cost, latency, and quality trade-offs
Sketch simple architectures for real AI use cases
Build the vocabulary to work confidently alongside AI teams

This course includes

9h 12m of on-demand content
30 lessons across 10 sections
Access on mobile and desktop
Certificate of completion
Lifetime access
Curriculum

Course content

10 sections · 30 lessons · 9h 12m

Understanding Data in AI 16 min
Data Collection & Cleaning 18 min
Data Pipelines (Concept-Only) 16 min

How AI Models Learn (Without the Math) 18 min

What Are Large Language Models? 18 min
Why LLMs Feel Smart 18 min
Choosing the Right AI Model: Costs, Tradeoffs, and the Players 20 min

Prompt Fundamentals 18 min
Advanced Prompting Techniques 20 min
Prompt Debugging 18 min

AI Application Components 18 min
Try an AI in a Playground 16 min
Vector Databases & Embeddings 20 min

Introduction to RAG 18 min
Chunking & Embeddings 18 min
Building a RAG Application (No-Code) 22 min

AI Agents Basics 18 min
Tool Use & Function Calling 18 min
Multi-Step AI Workflows 20 min
Multi-Agent Systems 20 min

Deploying AI Applications 18 min
Monitoring, Streaming & Scaling 18 min
AI Security & Safety 20 min
Responsible AI 18 min

Beginner AI Projects 18 min
Intermediate AI Projects 20 min
Industry-Level AI Systems & Final Assessment 22 min

Requirements

  • No prior AI or machine learning experience required
  • Basic comfort using a computer and the internet
  • Curiosity about how AI products actually work

Description

What you'll learn

Modern AI products feel like magic — but underneath, they are predictable systems made of recognizable parts: a frontend, a backend, a model, some data, and a handful of decisions about prompts, costs, and safety. This course teaches you to see those parts.

You will not write production code. You will sketch architectures, run prompts in playgrounds, compare models, estimate token costs, and analyze real products like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Cursor, and Notion AI. By the end you will be able to read an AI product launch and explain how it likely works, where it might break, and what it costs to run.

The 5 parts

  1. Foundations — what "AI" means in 2026, and the data that powers it.
  2. How AI Models Work — a no-math view of learning, LLMs, and picking a model.
  3. Building with AI — prompting, system architecture, and the RAG pattern.
  4. Advanced Systems — AI agents, tool use, and multi-step workflows.
  5. Production & Real Products — deploying, monitoring, securing, and staying responsible.

Who this is for

Product managers, designers, founders, students, and engineers who want a system-level mental model of modern AI — without a math or ML background. If you've used ChatGPT and wondered "how does this actually work?", this course is for you.

Format

Every lesson includes a concept walkthrough, a real-world example, a no-code activity, and a chapter quiz. A running mini-project threads through the course, ending in a capstone you can put in a portfolio.

Topics covered

ai llm prompt-engineering rag ai-agents
Your instructor
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Priya Nair

AI & Machine Learning Engineer · 11 yrs · ML Lead, Lumen AI

4.1 course rating 2 courses

Priya has built and deployed machine learning systems for 11 years, from recommendation models to production LLM pipelines. She has a knack for making the maths approachable, and believes the fastest way to understand AI is to ship something small that actually works.

4.1 course rating · 92 ratings

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Ms. Marielle McClure IV
1 year ago

Superb. The instructor is engaging and the projects reinforce exactly what you need to remember.

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Chet Heller
1 year ago

Easily one of the best courses I have taken. The explanations are crystal clear and every concept builds logically on the last.

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Donnie Bashirian
1 year ago

I learned more here in a week than in months of trying to figure things out on my own. Highly recommended.

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Dr. Mona Bashirian DVM
4 months ago

This exceeded my expectations. Clear delivery, great examples, and just the right amount of depth.

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Frequently asked questions

Yes — once you enroll, the course is yours to revisit forever. New revisions and bonus lessons are added at no extra cost.

Finish every lesson and you'll unlock a shareable certificate you can post on LinkedIn or include with job applications.

If the course isn't a fit, request a refund within 7 days of purchase — no questions asked.

Code, slides, and worksheets are downloadable on each lesson page. Videos stream from our CDN so you can watch on any device.

Each course states its level in the hero. If you're comfortable with the prerequisites listed, you're ready to start.

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