Capstone

AIE-300

6 credits · 120h required · after AIE-102, AIE-103, AIE-104, AIE-105, AIE-106, AIE-204, AIE-107

One substantial system that exercises the whole programme, shipped publicly and defended aloud. This is the artifact the transcript is built around, and it is the only course whose output a hiring manager will actually open. Everything before it was practice with a rubric attached; this is the thing itself, with the same rubrics applied to work nobody set for you.

The lab. Whatever you choose, subject to one rule: it must be something a stranger can use without you present. Not a notebook, not a demo you drive. The programme's other courses all borrowed their laboratory from products that already existed; this one has to produce a new one, because reusing an existing product would let you skip the part where a system meets someone who was not expecting it.

By the end you can

Ship a system that a stranger can use, with published evaluation results
Report honestly on what did not work and what the numbers actually say
Defend the design under unscripted questioning
Write it up so a hiring manager can assess it in ten minutes

What this builds

LLM evaluation0/21 demonstrated
AI architecture and build-versus-buy0/17 demonstrated
Engineering foundations · supporting0/19 demonstrated

Next assessment. Three candidates, and the criteria that choose between them — 180 min, tier 1. Machine-checkable, so you can attempt it before reading anything and find out whether you need to.

0/46 assessed items demonstrated · 0/0 read or watched. The second number is how you close a gap; only the first is evidence that it closed.

0 of 46 demonstrated · 0/0 read

0m of 120h

M1 · Scope, and commit to it in writing

0/7 · 18h

assignment · 3h · tier 1 machine-verified
assignment · 3h · tier 2 panel-assessed
assignment · 3h · tier 1 machine-verified
assignment · 3h · tier 2 panel-assessed
assignment · 2h 45m · tier 1 machine-verified
project · 3h · tier 3 artifact
retention · 15m · tier 1 machine-verified

M2 · Build

0/11 · 30h

assignment · 3h · tier 1 machine-verified
assignment · 3h · tier 1 machine-verified
assignment · 3h · tier 1 machine-verified
assignment · 3h · tier 1 machine-verified
assignment · 3h · tier 1 machine-verified
assignment · 3h · tier 1 machine-verified
assignment · 3h · tier 1 machine-verified
assignment · 3h · tier 1 machine-verified
assignment · 3h · tier 1 machine-verified
assignment · 2h 45m · tier 2 panel-assessed
retention · 15m · tier 1 machine-verified

M3 · Evaluate, against the plan you registered

0/9 · 24h

assignment · 3h · tier 1 machine-verified
assignment · 3h · tier 1 machine-verified
assignment · 3h · tier 2 panel-assessed
assignment · 3h · tier 2 panel-assessed
assignment · 3h · tier 2 panel-assessed
assignment · 3h · tier 2 panel-assessed
assignment · 3h · tier 2 panel-assessed
assignment · 2h 45m · tier 2 panel-assessed
retention · 15m · tier 1 machine-verified

M4 · Harden

0/7 · 18h

assignment · 3h · tier 2 panel-assessed
assignment · 3h · tier 1 machine-verified
assignment · 3h · tier 2 panel-assessed
assignment · 3h · tier 1 machine-verified
assignment · 2h 45m · tier 2 panel-assessed
assignment · 3h · tier 1 machine-verified
retention · 15m · tier 1 machine-verified

M5 · Write it up, and ship it

0/7 · 18h

project · 3h · tier 3 artifact
project · 3h · tier 3 artifact
project · 3h · tier 3 artifact
assignment · 3h · tier 2 panel-assessed
project · 2h 45m · tier 3 artifact
assignment · 3h · tier 2 panel-assessed
retention · 15m · tier 1 machine-verified

M6 · Defend

0/5 · 12h

assignment · 3h · tier 2 panel-assessed
defense · 3h · tier 4 defended
assignment · 3h · tier 2 panel-assessed
assignment · 2h 45m · tier 2 panel-assessed
retention · 15m · tier 1 machine-verified