Course — Directing the Machine

Building AI Fluency

Week 1

Where Do You Fit?

W1D1

What this machine is, and what each prompt costs you.

The Cartographer 2 lessons

Data Portraits

Meet the room and the machine — what generative AI is and how next-word prediction works.

Hello World

Where AI already touches the world — and how to make it fetch you real information.

The Source

W1D2

Treat the machine as a source to interrogate, not an oracle.

The Journalist 2 lessons

Questioncraft

Interrogate a source — sharp questions that expose where AI gets it wrong.

Writers Room

Run the newsroom — delegate the grunt work to AI and build a real article.

The Tribunal

W1D3

Argue AI’s harms through lenses, not hot takes.

The Advocate 2 lessons

Six Lenses

Take an argument apart through many lenses — and bend AI’s tone to each.

Steelman

Argue the strongest case — then fact-check the AI that helped you build it.

How We Know

W1D4

You only know what you can write down without the tool.

The Professor 2 lessons

Teachers Conference

Become the teacher — one-shot prompts that build your own study artefacts.

The Revision Sprint

Revise hard with AI — then sit the exam with none.

Creating a Trailer

Week 2

The Pitch

W2D1

Find the story’s engine; promise it in one line.

The Pitch Artist 3 lessons

The Concept — Brief, Examples & Idea Lock

Pressure-test a story idea for its dramatic engine with AI brainstorming.

The Trailer Logline

Compress your premise into a single persuasive promise.

Trailer Beats — Grammar of the Cut

Map persuasive beats that shape how viewers experience your story.

The Look

W2D2

Lock a world the camera can’t contradict.

The Art Director 3 lessons

Who Does AI Work — & What Does It Cost?

Choose the right image or video model by testing cost against capability.

The Style Frame

Define and lock a visual style using AI image generation and reference.

Consistent World & Character

Lock characters and settings across all shots using seed control.

The Footage

W2D3

Turn the style frames into shots that move.

The Cinematographer 2 lessons

Hero Shots — Shotlist & Keyframes

Identify the few keyframe moments that carry your story forward.

Image → Motion

Animate stills into directed motion using image-to-video AI.

The Cut

W2D4

Cut, voice and score it into something that lands.

The Sound Designer 3 lessons

Edit — Cut to the Beat

Cut your footage to rhythm, using AI editing assist for pacing.

The Voice — Narration & VO

Script and direct a voiceover that anchors your cut to narrative.

The Score — Music & Sound Design

Generate music and sound design that unlock the emotional core.

The Premiere

W2D5

Finish it, screen it cold, own the room.

The Editor 2 lessons

Finish & Screen

Polish and screen your trailer, reading the room's reaction.

Media Summit

Panel discussion on AI’s real impact on media and creative work, after making a trailer.

Coding JARVIS

Week 3

The Build

W3D1

Make the machine write code you can steer.

The Engineer 2 lessons

The Hacker Toolkit — Set Up the Dev Loop

Scope & design your AI coding assistant, then drive it live using direct interaction patterns.

Vibe-Coding a First Feature

Vibecode a working web feature using AI, from spec to shipped code in one sprint.

The Brain

W3D2

Give the build a character and something true to say.

The Puppeteer 2 lessons

Persona Design

Give JARVIS a personality — author a system prompt, tune its voice, test its persona.

Building a Knowledge Base

Feed JARVIS what you care about — index your documents, wire retrieval, ground it in fact.

The Hands

W3D3

Give the character hands, and a plan to use them.

The Toolsmith 2 lessons

Agent Tool Use — Give It Hands

Give JARVIS hands — connect external actions using function calling and real tool integration.

Multi-step Agent Loops

Advanced: chain agent steps in a plan-act-observe loop to run multi-step tasks independently.

The Guardrails

W3D4

Break your own agent before a stranger does.

The Sentinel 2 lessons

Agent Ethics — When Should JARVIS Refuse?

Draw JARVIS's refusal boundaries — define what it won't do and defend your guardrails.

Adversarial Testing — Break Your Agent

Break your bot, then fix it — attack JARVIS with adversarial prompts and patch the cracks.

Ship It

W3D5

Put it online and run it live for a stranger.

The Launch Director 3 lessons

Deploy the Chat Widget

Push JARVIS live — deploy a web chat widget to a public endpoint with wifi fallback.

Demo at Seoul Expo

Polish your demo — stage JARVIS for 90 seconds live at the Seoul Expo booth for strangers.

Your Future CV

Reflect on how AI will reshape your own future work and life after shipping a real product.