<p><pre><code> A Candid Review of DeepLearning.ai's Short Courses
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I approached DeepLearning.ai's courses with high expectations, drawn by Andrew Ng's stellar background as a Stanford Professor and now Amazon Board member. His contributions to AI education through Coursera's pioneering ML course were groundbreaking.<p>However, most short courses on DeepLearning.ai function more as product showcases than educational resources. For instance:<p>* "Building Agentic RAG with LlamaIndex” → LlamaIndex walkthrough
* "Serverless Agentic Workflows" → Amazon Bedrock tutorial
* "Building Multimodal Search" → Weaviate implementation guide
* “Evaluating and Debugging Generative AI Models” → How to use Weights & Biases<p>Yes, these courses are free. But they seem designed to funnel developers toward specific commercial APIs rather than build foundational knowledge.
Know what you're signing up for: hands-on product experience, not deep technical education.
hashtag#AI hashtag#MachineLearning hashtag#TechEducation hashtag#DeepLearning<p>Thoughts?