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If you're building with AI or preparing for AI system design interviews this two-day workshop gives you the foundations and thinking frameworks used by strong engineers and product builders.
Instead of high-level theory or model hype, we focus on what actually matters:
how software, data, models, and agents fit together to create reliable systems that scale and can be defended in interviews and real-world work.
You’ll learn how to:
Design AI systems end-to-end without getting stuck on the model
Think in components: what is pure software, what needs AI, what should never be agentic
Apply agentic automation responsibly without breaking reliability
Reason through trade-offs that interviewers silently look for: cost, latency, reliability, failure modes
Across both days, you’ll build confidence in answering the questions that show up in system design interviews, AI product reviews, and practical implementation discussions.
No coding experience required during the workshop the focus is design, boundaries, trade-offs, clarity, and communication.
What You’ll Take Away
By the end of the workshop, you will be able to:
Break down an AI system into software + model + agent layers
Decide where AI helps and where it hurts
Explain why something should not be agentic
Anticipate failure modes and monitoring signals
Make cost vs intelligence trade-offs without harming UX
Communicate your design to engineers, PMs, and interviewers
Who This Is For
People who want to design or defend AI systems, including:
Developers & ML engineers building AI-powered features
Students preparing for technical interviews
Product & platform engineers transitioning into AI work
PMs and founders wanting to design reliable AI systems
You do not need to be an “AI expert.”
You do need the willingness to think in systems and reason in trade-offs.
Format
Day 1 - How to Design AI Systems
Foundational components, architectures, trade-offs, and where AI truly fits.
Day 2 - How to Defend AI Systems
Agentic orchestration, failure-first thinking, production reasoning, interview frameworks.
Each segment includes:
guided reasoning drills
mini design exercises
poll-based checkpoints
reflection prompts to complete after Day 1 & Day 2
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