Designing Systems That Use AI APIs
When you finish, you can
Design and ship a product feature that uses an AI API — with streaming, state, fallbacks, retrieval and controlled cost.
Start hereYou need VC-201 and an API key from an AI provider with a small spending cap set before you start.
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Take a position on Designing Systems That Use AI APIs. The AI counselor argues the other side, asks you questions back, and cites a source for every fact it states. Sources listed under a reply are the pages it actually found; if none are listed, it is arguing from reasoning only. It is an AI and it can be wrong: check the sources.
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Enter the course roomCourse Syllabus
9h total- How AI APIs Work25 min
- Authentication and Rate Limits25 min
- Prompt Engineering for APIs25 min
- Streaming Responses25 min
Practice
- Make one API call from a script and print the response and the token count.
- Set a monthly spending cap in the provider's dashboard.
- Stream a response into a web page word by word.
Check
What does one thousand calls of your prompt cost, and what would you change to halve it?
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