| What | When |
|---|---|
| Portfolio site live at a public URL | Friday 21 August |
| Own a copy of the book — AI Engineering, Chip Huyen | Monday 24 August |
| Quiz — chapter 1 | Friday 4 September |
1. The portfolio — due Friday 21 August
You hand in a URL, submitted via AXIS. Have fun with the design.
Full details on this project →You have agents installed — use them
This assumes Claude Code or Codex is working on your machine. If it isn’t, that’s Assignment 02, and it comes first.
Here’s my plan for my portfolio site.
GOAL: [one sentence — who it’s for and what they should think] SCAFFOLD: [the pieces, in build order] EVALUATE: [how we’ll both know it’s finished]
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Goal
what you are making, and why it is worth makingWho is this for, and what do you want them to think after ten seconds? One sentence, specific. “To show my work” isn’t a goal — every portfolio shows work. What’s yours for?
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Scaffold
how you get there — the pieces, and the orderThe pieces, in the order you’ll build them. What’s the smallest version that could be live today? What are you deliberately not building this week?
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Evaluate
how we will know it is goodMake it objective enough to fail. An AI will tell you it’s good and mean nothing by it — a measurable standard is the only thing it can’t talk its way past. Write one for each domain you care about: design is a different test from code.
2. The book — buy it by Monday 24 August
AI Engineering — Chip Huyen.
done when You have your own paper copy with you on Monday.
3. The quiz — Friday 4 September
Chapter 1 only. Closed book.
What does it mean to know a chapter, for this quiz? reveal
You can explain each main idea in your own words, unprompted, with nothing in front of you.