Curated Links

Curated links for AI builders

External links and references selected for builders shipping AI projects. Browse workshops, courses, articles, and focused references without treating this page as the home for every community activity or recording.

Courses

Courses and learning tracks

LLM Course by Maxime Labonne

Large language model course. From basics to RAG, agents, and fine-tuning.

dlt Fundamentals

Course from dlthub on building robust ELT pipelines. Includes a holiday lesson (Dec 22) on integrating LLMs into your workflow, with 50 swag packs to compete for.

FreeCodeCamp Course

Learn how to build modern, scalable data pipelines using Python and AI-assisted tools. This hands-on tutorial starts from the basics of data ingestion and takes you all the way to advanced techniques in data loading, transformation, deployment, and automation. By freeCodeCamp, featuring Alexey Grigoriev and Adrian Brudaru.

AI Agents Email Crash-Course (Cohort Edition)

Free cohort-based version running December and January. Complete the project and review three other submissions to receive a certificate of completion signed by Alexey.

Agentic AI Crash Course

A free introductory crash course on agentic AI that explains how modern AI agents work in practice, from tools and RAG to memory, planning, MCP, and multi-agent systems. Designed as a clear, realistic starting point focused on real-world system design and limitations rather than hype.

Assignments for

Programming assignments for

Data Engineering Zoomcamp

New cohort starts on January 12, 2026. A free 9-week course on building production-ready data

LLM Fine-Tuning roadmap

Curated resource for

Claude Code and Large-Context Reasoning

Materials from Tim Warner's O'Reilly Live Learning

You Could've Invented OpenClaw

Tutorial by Nader Dabit for building a persistent AI assistant from scratch (starting with a Telegram bot + Anthropic API) and iteratively adding sessions, memory, tool use, and scheduled tasks.

CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch

Implementation-heavy Stanford course that walks through building a language model end to

Other

Datasets, APIs, and more