Can someone put this company out of its misery?

Codesmith also launched their standalone AI course. 4 weeks part time for almost $5000: https://www.become-irreplaceable.dev/ai-ml-program I commented on this and will continue to comment it. The best way to learn AI if you are a generalist SWE is to get a job at a top tier company and learn through their internal materials, confidential research, and thousands of ML engineers. These are cash grabs capitalizing on fear of missing out, unless you want to be a prompt engineer and not a SWE job. But those jobs haven't solidified at all to justify experimenting on you to try to get you there.

Some alumni have talked to me about the materials yeah. They said they only received the 5 lectures but that the projects weren't done yet. I think the people starting Codesmith now will get the real material for the first time in abouf 2 months. Which is why it's insane to me they are charging $3200 (discounted for the first cohort in Jan) instead of making it free. They both have to iron out the bugs and also have no idea how useful this course will be. The lectures sound laughable as you said. Like RAG and fine tuning spent defining all of these techniques that were invented in the past year but not really being that useful. There are some excellent free under the hood YouTube series on AI. There is an amazing one I watched part of that is like dozens of lectures for 2-3 hours each that really explains from basics how everything works, and still often says things alike "this is a simplified graphic to generally understand". I think they lost their way and arent listening to any feedback, or maybe they are talking to different people than I am. If you want to start a peer-based ML club or a guest lecture series from experts... make the club public so everyone can benefit and don't charge $4500. The experts have so many public talks online right now, curate those instead.