Phase 19

Capstone Projects

Prove everything you learned. Build portfolio-grade systems.

01Capstone 01 — Terminal-Native Coding AgentCapstone35 hoursQuiz 02Capstone 02 — RAG over Codebase (Cross-Repo Semantic Search)Capstone30 hoursQuiz 03Capstone 03 — Real-Time Voice Assistant (ASR to LLM to TTS)Capstone30 hoursQuiz 04Capstone 04 — Multimodal Document QA (Vision-First PDF, Tables, Charts)Capstone30 hoursQuiz 05Capstone 05 — Autonomous Research Agent (AI-Scientist Class)Capstone40 hoursQuiz 06Capstone 06 — DevOps Troubleshooting Agent for KubernetesCapstone30 hoursQuiz 07Capstone 07 — End-to-End Fine-Tuning Pipeline (Data to SFT to DPO to Serve)Capstone35 hoursQuiz 08Capstone 08 — Production RAG Chatbot for a Regulated VerticalCapstone30 hoursQuiz 09Capstone 09 — Code Migration Agent (Repo-Level Language / Runtime Upgrade)Capstone30 hoursQuiz 10Capstone 10 — Multi-Agent Software Engineering TeamCapstone40 hoursQuiz 11Capstone 11 — LLM Observability & Eval DashboardCapstone25 hoursQuiz 12Capstone 12 — Video Understanding Pipeline (Scene, QA, Search)Capstone30 hoursQuiz 13Capstone 13: Stateless MCP Server with Registry and GovernanceCapstone~25 hoursQuiz 14Capstone 14 — Speculative-Decoding Inference ServerCapstone30 hoursQuiz 15Capstone 15 — Constitutional Safety Harness + Red-Team RangeCapstone25 hoursQuiz 16Capstone 16 — GitHub Issue-to-PR Autonomous AgentCapstone30 hoursQuiz 17Capstone 17 — Personal AI Tutor (Adaptive, Multimodal, with Memory)Capstone30 hoursQuiz 20Agent Harness Loop ContractBuild~90 minutesQuiz 21Tool Registry with Schema ValidationBuild~90 minutesQuiz 22JSON-RPC 2.0 Over Newline-Delimited StdioBuild~90 minutesQuiz 23Function Call DispatcherBuild~90 minutesQuiz 24Plan-Execute Control FlowBuild~90 minutesQuiz 25Capstone Lesson 25: Verification Gates and the Observation BudgetBuild~90 minutesQuiz 26Capstone Lesson 26: Sandbox Runner with Denylist and Path JailBuild~90 minutesQuiz 27Capstone Lesson 27: Eval Harness with Fixture TasksBuild~90 minutesQuiz 28Capstone Lesson 28: Observability with OTel GenAI Spans and Prometheus MetricsBuild~90 minutesQuiz 29Capstone Lesson 29: End-to-End Coding Agent on the HarnessBuild~90 minutesQuiz 30BPE Tokenizer From ScratchBuild~90 minutesQuiz 31Tokenized Dataset with Sliding WindowBuild~90 minutesQuiz 32Token and Positional EmbeddingsBuild~90 minutesQuiz 33Multi-Head Self-AttentionBuild~90 minutesQuiz 34Transformer Block from ScratchBuild~90 minutesQuiz 35GPT Model AssemblyBuild~90 minutesQuiz 36Training Loop and EvaluationBuild~90 minutesQuiz 37Loading Pretrained WeightsBuild~90 minutesQuiz 38Capstone Lesson 38: Classifier Fine-Tuning by Head SwapBuild~90 minutesQuiz 39Capstone Lesson 39: Instruction Tuning by Supervised Fine-TuningBuild~90 minutesQuiz 40Capstone Lesson 40: Direct Preference Optimization from ScratchBuild~90 minutesQuiz 41Capstone Lesson 41: Full Evaluation PipelineBuild~90 minutesQuiz 42Large Corpus DownloaderBuild~90 minutesQuiz 43HDF5 Tokenized CorpusBuild~90 minutesQuiz 44Cosine LR with Linear WarmupBuild~90 minutesQuiz 45Gradient Clipping and Mixed PrecisionBuild~90 minutesQuiz 46Gradient AccumulationBuild~90 minutesQuiz 47Checkpoint Save and ResumeBuild~90 minutesQuiz 48Distributed Data Parallel and FSDP from ScratchBuild~90 minutesQuiz 49Language Model Evaluation HarnessBuild~90 minutesQuiz 50Hypothesis GeneratorBuild~90 minutesQuiz 51Literature RetrievalBuild~90 minutesQuiz 52Experiment RunnerBuild~90 minutesQuiz 53Result EvaluatorBuild~90 minutesQuiz 54Paper WriterBuild~90 minutesQuiz 55Critic LoopBuild~90 minutesQuiz 56Iteration SchedulerBuild~90 minutesQuiz 57End-to-End Research DemoBuild~90 minutesQuiz 58Vision Encoder PatchesBuild~90 minutesQuiz 59Vision Transformer EncoderBuild~90 minutesQuiz 60Projection Layer for Modality AlignmentBuild~90 minutesQuiz 61Cross-Attention FusionBuild~90 minutesQuiz 62Vision-Language PretrainingBuild~90 minutesQuiz 63Multimodal EvaluationBuild~90 minutesQuiz 64Chunking Strategies, ComparedBuild~90 minutesQuiz 65Hybrid Retrieval with BM25 and Dense EmbeddingsBuild~90 minutesQuiz 66Cross-Encoder RerankerBuild~90 minutesQuiz 67Query Rewriting: HyDE, Multi-Query, and DecompositionBuild~90 minutesQuiz 68RAG Evaluation: Precision, Recall, MRR, nDCG, Faithfulness, Answer RelevanceBuild~90 minutesQuiz 69End-to-End RAG SystemBuild~90 minutesQuiz 70Task Spec FormatBuild~90 minQuiz 71Classical MetricsBuild~90 minQuiz 72Code Exec MetricBuild~90 minQuiz 73Perplexity and CalibrationBuild~90 minQuiz 74Leaderboard AggregationBuild~90 minQuiz 75End-to-End Eval RunnerBuild~90 minQuiz 76Collective Ops From ScratchBuild~90 minQuiz 77Data Parallel DDP From ScratchBuild~90 minQuiz 78ZeRO Optimizer State ShardingBuild~90 minQuiz 79Pipeline Parallel and Bubble AnalysisBuild~90 minQuiz 80Sharded Checkpoint and Atomic ResumeBuild~90 minQuiz 81End-to-End Distributed TrainingBuild~90 minQuiz 82Capstone 82 — Jailbreak TaxonomyBuild~90 minQuiz 83Capstone 83 — Prompt Injection DetectorBuild~90 minQuiz 84Capstone 84 — Refusal EvaluationBuild~90 minQuiz 85Capstone 85 — Content Classifier IntegrationBuild~90 minQuiz 86Capstone 86 — Constitutional Rules EngineBuild~90 minQuiz 87Capstone 87 — End-to-End Safety GateBuild~90 minQuiz 88GRPO from Scratch — Training a Reasoning Policy End to EndBuild~120 minutesQuiz 89Eval Harness from Scratch — Building Your Own Evaluation StackBuild~110 minutesQuiz

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