Overview

Welcome to the middle of the course! We’ve made it 5 weeks so far and covered a lot of ground!

It’s time to double down on what we’re aiming at, and how we plan to build, ship, and share our way to a Demo Day success!

No matter what you’re specifically aiming at in your life or career in 2025, adding a fully shipped project to your portfolio will certainly not hurt 🏗️🚢🚀!

Let’s recall where we’ve been and what we’ve covered in the past five weeks

• Introduction, Vibe Check,and RAG
• Production-Grade RAG Apps & Use Cases
• Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
• RAG and Agent Evaluation with Synthetic Data
• Advanced Retrieval and Agentic Reasoning

Remember, you know enough already to be dangerous. Now, it’s time to put your skills to the test. Do you understand the concepts and code we need to build, ship, and share production LLM applications?

It’s time to assign your Certification Challenge, which you must complete to receive a certification 🎖️.

This will also form the basis for what you’ll build, ship, and share for Demo Day!

Introduction

All good stories, like all RAG applications, rely on putting the right stuff in context.

What’s the context for your CERTIFICATION CHALLENGE submission?

What’s the context for your Demo Day application?

That’s the first thing you need to figure out!

In Cohorts 1-4 of the Bootcamp, we provided the context for students on the Certification.