Building
Structured outputs & schema validation
Constrain model outputs to JSON schemas and validate them in code.
Target proficiency: Applied
Course outcomes
- AIN 401 CO2
Apply prompt, context and retrieval (RAG) engineering, including structured outputs and tool calling, to build LLM features on a cloud AI platform or open-weight stack.
- MST 501 CO1
Demonstrate Foundations & Agent Architecture competence: complete the Day 1–15 builds, explain the underlying theory, and defend the phase artefact under live questioning.
- MST 501 CO2
Demonstrate Model Layer, Context & Tools competence: complete the Day 16–30 builds, explain the underlying theory, and defend the phase artefact under live questioning.
- MST 502 CO1
Demonstrate Foundations & Theory competence: complete the Day 1–15 builds, explain the underlying theory, and defend the phase artefact under live questioning.
- MST 505 CO4
Demonstrate Agents, Tools & Orchestration competence: complete the Day 46–60 builds, explain the underlying theory, and defend the phase artefact under live questioning.
- MST 505 CO5
Demonstrate Evaluation, Caching, Multimodal & Observability competence: complete the Day 61–75 builds, explain the underlying theory, and defend the phase artefact under live questioning.
- MST 507 CO2
Demonstrate LLMs, Prompting & the Agentic Loop competence: complete the Day 16–30 builds, explain the underlying theory, and defend the phase artefact under live questioning.
- MST 508 CO1
Demonstrate Foundations & Theory competence: complete the Day 1–15 builds, explain the underlying theory, and defend the phase artefact under live questioning.
- MST 508 CO2
Demonstrate Core LLM Engineering competence: complete the Day 16–30 builds, explain the underlying theory, and defend the phase artefact under live questioning.
- MST 508 CO5
Demonstrate Serving, Fine-tuning & Performance competence: complete the Day 61–75 builds, explain the underlying theory, and defend the phase artefact under live questioning.
Taught in weeks & phases
- AIN 401 · Week 3 — Prompt & Context Engineering; Structured Outputs
- MST 501 · Phase 1 — Foundations & Agent Architecture
- MST 501 · Phase 2 — Model Layer, Context & Tools
- MST 502 · Phase 1 — Foundations & Theory
- MST 505 · Phase 4 — Agents, Tools & Orchestration
- MST 505 · Phase 5 — Evaluation, Caching, Multimodal & Observability
- MST 507 · Phase 2 — LLMs, Prompting & the Agentic Loop
- MST 508 · Phase 1 — Foundations & Theory
- MST 508 · Phase 2 — Core LLM Engineering
- MST 508 · Phase 5 — Serving, Fine-tuning & Performance