Agentic AI Builder’s Bootcamp · Day 1
Welcome
Ship a real product today. No code required.
Dr Aki Wijesundara
The AI Internship · Day 1
Meet your instructor
Dr Aki Wijesundara
Instructor, Agentic AI Builder’s Bootcamp
- ✓PhD and Postdoc in Machine Learning, King’s College London
- ✓Part of Google’s AI Accelerator
- ✓AI Founder (SnapDrum and TAI Labs)
- ✓Senior AI Advisor to the United Nations
- ✓Previous affiliations: MIT, Google
Agentic AI Builder’s Bootcamp
Ship a real product in four weeks, no code required
Two apps. A few minutes. No code.
Yours ships today.
You think you can’t build software.
By the end of today, you’ll have shipped a live app.
No code.
One rule: ship one thing.
What changed
A team and months.
Now one person and days.
The proof
Building is no longer a specialist skill.
Lovable: fastest-growing startup ever. 200,000+ apps built daily.
YC: a quarter of its latest batch had 95% AI-written code.
Spotify: Claude assists 73% of PRs across 20M+ lines of code.
Google: 75% of new code is AI-generated (Sundar Pichai).
None of them were engineers
Cal AI · 8 months. Two 18-year-olds, still in high school. 5M+ downloads, $2M/month revenue.
Connor Burd · 23 years old. Vibe-coded his latest app in 14 days. His apps together make $100K+/month.
Cal AI: TechCrunch, March 2025. Connor Burd: Starter Story, YouTube.
Logistics · plan, tools, capstone
Four weeks, one product
01 Build it
→02 Extend it
→03 Automate it
→04 Evaluate it
Then a build sprint and shared Demo Day
Tools you’ll need
- Lovable · this week
- Claude Code and Claude Cowork · get a Claude account (week 2)
- n8n and Hermes · week 3
- AI evals (Langfuse) · create an account (week 4)
Capstone project idea
Frosted Screen: a startup that helps teams ship faster with AI. Your capstone builds on this product across all four weeks.
Logistics · outcomes & community
What you leave with
- ✓A live product with a real URL
- ✓A working agent or automation
- ✓An honest evaluation of your own build
- ✓A Demo Day walkthrough
A portfolio piece, not a certificate.
Scan to join the cohort group. Home base for the bootcamp. Drop your live URL here today. Open WhatsApp invite →
Get your AI foundations · free
Think Like an AI Engineer
10 parts, under 45 minutes. Watch before or alongside this week, so the live build clicks faster.
01 · How LLMs work & prompting
- How LLMs actually work
- How to prompt like a pro
02 · Models, files & context
- Picking the right model
- Using AI with your files and data
- Context is everything
Get your AI foundations · free
Building, shipping, and staying sharp
03 · Building with AI
- Vibe coding for non-engineers
- What AI agents actually are
- Build workflows with no code
04 · Ship & stay sharp
- AI evals: does it actually work?
- The fastest way to stay current
Watch on the syllabus page. All 10 parts with embedded players. Start with part 6 (Vibe Coding) if you’re short on time. Open watch-through series →
AI full stack is six layers
Frontend: what the user sees and touches
Backend: the brain that decides what happens
Data: the memory that remembers between visits
Auth: the gatekeeper: who's in, and what they see
AI: the intelligence that reasons, generates, and responds
Integration: the connectors that talk to APIs, tools, and the outside world
AI full stack is six layers
Frontend: what the user sees and touches
Backend: the brain that decides what happens
Data: the memory that remembers between visits
Auth: the gatekeeper: who's in, and what they see
AI: the intelligence that reasons, generates, and responds
Integration: the connectors that talk to APIs, tools, and the outside world
AI full stack is six layers
Frontend: what the user sees and touches
Backend: the brain that decides what happens
Data: the memory that remembers between visits
Auth: the gatekeeper: who's in, and what they see
AI: the intelligence that reasons, generates, and responds
Integration: the connectors that talk to APIs, tools, and the outside world
AI full stack is six layers
Frontend: what the user sees and touches
Backend: the brain that decides what happens
Data: the memory that remembers between visits
Auth: the gatekeeper: who's in, and what they see
AI: the intelligence that reasons, generates, and responds
Integration: the connectors that talk to APIs, tools, and the outside world
AI full stack is six layers
Frontend: what the user sees and touches
Backend: the brain that decides what happens
Data: the memory that remembers between visits
Auth: the gatekeeper: who's in, and what they see
AI: the intelligence that reasons, generates, and responds
Integration: the connectors that talk to APIs, tools, and the outside world
AI full stack is six layers
Yes — this is what a full-stack application is.
Six layers, talking to each other on every request.
Frontend
what the user touches
Backend
decides what happens
Data
remembers between visits
Auth
who’s in, what they see
AI
reasons and responds
Integration
talks to the outside world
You don’t write code.
You write the brief.
The brief is the new spec
Anatomy of a brief
Four things every brief needs.
01 · What it does
02 · Who it’s for
03 · The one key action
Vague vs sharp
The smaller and more specific the part, the smarter the result.
Vague
“Build a signup section.”
Sharp
“Add a form with an email input and a rounded submit button that shows a success message.”
Live demo
Let’s build Pennywise in Lovable.
A personal expense tracker — login, dashboard, AI insights, voice summary.
Your turn · Pennywise
Five prompts, one at a time
Paste each into Lovable. Review. Then the next.
- Core app + login — Expenses, categories, edit/delete, persistence
- Dashboard — Month/today totals, chart, five recent
- AI spending insights — Friendly summary + Regenerate
- Voice monthly summary — ElevenLabs: total, top category, savings tip
- Polish (optional) — Spacing, shadows, bold dashboard numbers
Copy-paste sheet
Full prompt text
Open on your phone or second screen — one-tap copy for each prompt.
Also on the Week 1 syllabus under Live session resources.
#BUILDINPUBLIC
Share what you’re building as you go, not only when it’s perfect.
Submission homework
Ship your product, version one
Ship a live web app at a shareable URL. Not finished, just real.
Done when · the product
- ✓URL loads for someone else
- ✓Sign up and log in
- ✓Core action works
- ✓Data survives a refresh
- ✓At least one live AI feature
Done when · share it
- ✓LinkedIn post with screenshots or a screen recording
- ✓Maven: live URL, AI feature, one ask for feedback
Full brief → ship-your-product-version-one
On day one, you shipped full-stack software.
No code.
This is version one
Every week adds a layer to this product.
The ladder
Same product, six layers deeper.
Week 2
Extend it (Claude Code, Claude Cowork)
Week 3
Automate it and add an agent (n8n, Hermes)
Week 4
Evaluate it (Langfuse)
You’re not here to learn about AI.
You’re here to build with it.
