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Hi there! I'm Peter.

I've been building AI products since 2023, and it's been a fascinating journey.

I've been using techniques like "evals", "observability", "synthetic data", "context engineering", a bunch of techniques that the AI community has figured out over the past few years.

The teams building the best AI products today rely on these core techniques every day, and they can look pretty complicated.

But it's not rocket science. These methods aren't magic. You don't have to be an engineer to use them. And in fact, I believe that the best AI products are built when diverse teams bring different perspectives to the table. That sounds corny but it is, perhaps surprisingly, more true in AI than any other technology I've worked with.

So I decided to build this course to demystify these techniques, giving you a practical, no-fluff guide to implementing the essential toolkit for creating great AI product experiences.

It's for product managers, UX people, researchers, strategists. Everyone that needs to understand how AI systems are actually built and made useful, without necessarily being an engineer.

It's still day 1, AI continues to evolve incredibly fast, and there is a ton of stuff to be invented. Right now is the best time to get started. If you want to jump in and join me on this journey, sign up.

See you there!

What people are saying

"This is opening up all sorts of new neural pathways for me to see under the hood more of how the sausage is made! 🙏"

What people are saying

"Very timely at my enterprise software company as evaluation of AI features scales."

What people are saying

"Everything I know about evals is from Peter’s talk, which is why I’m back to find out more!"

What you will learn

AI 101

A deep dive introduction to model capabilities, context design and engineering and experience evaluation.

1. Introduction

1.1
Welcome

Let's get started!

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2. Getting our hands dirty

2.1
Context Design Exercise

Let's do some context design. The model's context window is the key to creating useful and helpful output.

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2.2
Context Engineering Exercise

So we did some context design - now how does that become context engineering?

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2.3
Evals Exercise

And the final missing piece: evals! But wait, do we even need them here?

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3. Model basics

3.1
Models are Stateless

What does it mean for models to be stateless? Let's build some intuition around that.

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3.2
Models are Stochastic

And what does it mean for models to be Stocastic? Why do they hallucinate? Can we ever get beyond that?

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3.3
A model warning

Some common misunderstandings about AI and Large Language Models can easily lead us astray.

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4. Let's write some evals

4.1
Evals intro: set up your accounts

This is what we came for: some hands-on eval writing.

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4.2
An introduction to evals

What are evals, why do we need them, and why isn't this just QA?

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4.3
Let's write an eval together

This is the fun part, hands-on writing evals together.

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4.4
Eval Tips and Common Mistakes

Evals can be tricky, and it's easy to make some very expensive (in terms of quality, end result and cost) mistakes.

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4.5
How we define what Good looks like

One reason evals are tricky, is that it can be hard to define what Good looks like when working (as we are) in a team.

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Creating Data Sets

There are no evals without data sets. How do we create solid data sets? How many data points are enough? What about synthetic data?

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5. Model Capabilities

5.1
Introduction to Model Capabilities

What can LLMs do? How do we know what the capabilities of these models are? How are they trained? And how does that influence our product design decisions?

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5.2
Model Post Training and RLHF

How are capabilities trained into models? How can we build intuition around these capabilities and best use them?

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5.3
Why do models have different personalities?

What is model character, how is it trained, and how can we learn to understand and use this beyond "Claude feels friendlier"?

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Claude Code for UX People and Researchers

Despite the "code" in its name, Claude Code is perhaps the most popular agentic AI system right now. Understanding and using it gives you a glimpse into what's coming the coming months and years in terms of agents. And it can be incredibly useful for non-coding tasks.

1. Getting started with Claude Code, for non-engineers

1.1
Why should I try out Claude Code

I'm not an engineer, I don't write code, what can I learn from playing around with Claude Code?

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Let's install Claude Code

And learn a few tricks along the way.

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First Steps with Claude Code

Let's dive in and start creating.

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We'll build a data analysis website

We'll take some really interesting data on the US supreme court hearings, and build a website to explore this data with Claude Code.

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A clean redesign and slash commands

Let's redesign the search we built to be clean and minimalistic. Also, what are slash commands?

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2. Gemini 3 and the Antigravity editor

2.1
From Claude Code to the Antigravity editor

We'll move from the command line, taking the app we built with Claude Code, and try out Google's Antigravity editor.

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Can we build a chatbot on this data?

Let's try something harder - can we build a chatbot on top of this data? And get familiar with Google's Antigravity editor along the way.

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Wrapping up our Antigravity experiment

Let's wrap up and review some lessons learnt.

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Project Planning for AI

If AI is different, and AI projects are different, how do we plan projects for AI? What are the roles and tracks we should consider? What are some common gotchas?

1. Project Planning for AI

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Project planning for Evals and Context Design

Context Design and Evals are two cornerstone activities to build great AI products. How do we plan for them?

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Budgets for AI projects

How do we budget an AI project? What are some of the things to look out for?

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AI project roles

AI is indeed different - what roles or skillsets should we hire for or plan for when preparing AI projects?

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It's not just the videos.

The videos are hands-on, and come with links to tons of useful resources, prompts you can copy and paste, data sets you can use for the exercises and more.

Aside from that, you'll probably have some questions. It's tricky to wrap your head around this new world. How does vector search really work? Does AI really have a world model? You get a direct line to me on Slack for all your questions.

The third pillar of learning is community. No, we're not starting another Slack or Discord group. Instead, you'll have full access to regular group office hours calls. It's the best way to learn.

Pricing

I'm building this service for professionals who are serious about investing in their career.

You get an ever growing video course, a direct line to me on Slack, and access to regular group office hours.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is lifetime access really one-time payment?
Yes! You pay $249 once and get access forever. No monthly fees, no annual renewals, no subscriptions to manage.
What's included in my access?
You get access to all video courses and resources, a direct Slack Connect channel to ask Peter questions, and invitations to regular group office hours calls.
How does lifetime compare to monthly?
The monthly plan is $79/month. Lifetime access ($249) pays for itself in just over 3 months. If you know you're serious about learning AI, lifetime is the better value.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes, and we offer a money-back guarantee for the first 30 days if you're not satisfied for any reason whatsoever (minus Stripe processing fees). No questions asked!
Do I need technical/coding experience?
No! This course is specifically designed for product managers, UX professionals, designers, and researchers. All exercises are hands-on but don't require programming knowledge.
How much time should I expect to invest?
The course is self-paced, so you can learn at your own speed. Most videos include hands-on exercises that you can complete as your schedule allows.
Is this just theory or practical skills?
Every module includes hands-on exercises with real tools, templates you can copy-paste, and datasets to practice with. You'll build actual AI skills, not just learn about them.
What makes this different from other AI courses?
This is specifically designed for non-engineers working on AI products. Most AI education is either too technical or too high-level - this bridges that gap with practical, hands-on training.
Is the content updated as AI evolves?
Yes! This is a growing course that gets updated regularly as new AI techniques and best practices emerge. As a member, you also get to drive the direction of the course.
Will this help me advance my career?
Understanding AI product development is becoming essential for product and UX roles. Companies are actively looking for people who can bridge AI capabilities with user needs.
What if my company isn't using AI yet?
Perfect timing! This course helps you understand AI capabilities so you can identify opportunities and speak confidently about AI strategy when your company is ready to invest.
Can I expense this through my company?
Many students successfully expense this as professional development. We can provide invoices for your records.

My thesis (why am I doing this?)

First, I was pretty sceptical of the early 2021-2022 AI hype, until I saw my kids adopt AI within weeks. And it stay adopted. "This might be actually useful technology", I thought. I spent 2023, 2024 and 2025 building AI products for clients, and learning. The ins and outs of vector indexes. Why the hell did these models seem so smart?

1. There is some kind of weird, but nonetheless real "intelligence" embedded in these models. And it's getting smarter.

It took me a while to build some understanding and intuition around this. You can call it what you want. "Intelligence" is a strange word. I get why people feel uncomfortable with it. But the models do embed some strange kind of world model.

And more importantly, they are developing really different and weird, and at the same time very human-like capabilities. Can a model "reason"? Kind of no, but also kind of yes. Once I wrapped my head around this, I did become a bit more hype-y on the whole AI thing. Forget about the hype, but there is some kind of "there" there.

At the very least, it's interesting.

2. The World is slow to change, but Jobs aren't.

The idea here is that, yes, AI won't change the world overnight. Companies take time to adopt things. Societies take time. But Jobs can change rapidly. I'm already seeing how the way we worked the past 20 or so years, since the Internet, is changing. Team compositions are changing. Skillsets are changing. Roles naturally follow. So even though AI will take a long time to perculate through society, our jobs might change pretty fast.

3. Values get embedded in AI, so we need diversity.

The clearest example of how values get embedded in AI is Musk threatening to "rewrite history" to train Grok. Let's not go there. I've been in many AI product discussions where smart engineers were driving the decisions, because they understood the underlying material we are working with. But the moment you include researchers, product people, UX people, the amount of diversity in ideas and perspectives shoots up immediately.

And AI is such a strange and interesting technology in that it revolves a lot around language. The words you use in a prompt. The ideas around "what good looks like" that you embed in your evals. And so I've seen how much impact different perspectives have on these new kinds of products. So I started giving talks and teaching this stuff.

4. It's not rocket science.

The technology is very cool, but the actual product decisions being made are all about users, looking at data, language, and understanding this new material, and you don't need to be an engineer for that. That is my goal with this new platform. Involve everyone.

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