Constellate

A course · 3 journeys · 12 concepts

Understand AI

How the machines actually work, and how to live with them.

What a modern AI actually is, from the inside. You see how one gets made, follow a single prompt through the machine from your words to its answer, and learn why AI behaves the way it does - where to trust it, where it fails, and what never to delegate. You leave working with AI like someone who knows what is inside the box.

No videos. No quizzes. Each concept is one guided conversation that ends when you can wield the idea in your own words - and every idea you earn becomes a star on your own map of understanding.

The arc

  1. 01

    Inside the Machine

    4 concepts

    You will be able to explain where a model’s behaviour comes from, end to end: the artifact, the tuner, the factory, and why scale predictably buys capability.

    Neural Networks · Gradient Descent · The Training Pipeline · Scaling Laws

  2. 02

    How AI Thinks

    3 concepts

    You will be able to narrate the journey of a single prompt, unaided: words to geometry, geometry weighed by attention, one token chosen and fed back, until the answer exists.

    Embeddings · Attention · The Generation Loop

  3. 03

    Working with AI

    5 concepts

    You will be able to trace any AI behaviour back to the mechanism, and adjust what you ask, what you verify, and what you never delegate.

    Capabilities and Limits · Hallucination · Alignment · AI Agents · Prompting

What you keep

Every concept you graduate becomes a Flash - the idea in your words, kept. Every journey ends in a capstone: you bring its ideas together on something real from your own world, and seal a constellation with a name. The course is complete when its constellations are.

£19founding price · £29 after launchonce · yours for good
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