Honest accounts from people who've been through the courses

I came in knowing absolutely nothing about Python — not even what a variable was. The first two weeks felt slow, which in hindsight was exactly right. By week five I was writing my own data cleaning scripts and actually understanding what they did. The mentor feedback was what made the difference; I'd get a paragraph of notes on each submission explaining what worked and what to rethink.

Intro to AI & Python · May 2025

I had some Python background from work but deep learning was new. The workshop moved faster than the intro course, which suited me. The capstone project took longer than I expected — I probably underestimated how much iteration goes into actually training a model on a messy dataset. That said, finishing it felt genuinely satisfying in a way that completing a quiz never does.

Deep Learning Workshop · April 2025

Working full-time and studying at the same time is genuinely hard. Codeloom knows this — the pacing doesn't assume you can give eight hours on a weekday. I had a rough patch around month three of the engineering program and reached out to ask about catching up. The response was practical rather than reassuring: they helped me rearrange which modules to prioritise. That kind of support matters.

Applied AI Engineering · May 2025

Honestly, I wasn't sure after the first week whether I'd chosen the right place. The pace was slower than I wanted. But I stayed and I'm glad I did — by week four it clicked why things had been introduced in that order. I'd taken a faster course before that left me able to copy code without understanding it. This was different. I can now write things from scratch and debug them without copying from Stack Overflow.

Intro to AI & Python · April 2025

The weekly sessions with Kasem were the highlight of the Deep Learning Workshop for me. He has a way of explaining gradient descent that makes it feel almost obvious in retrospect. I asked some genuinely confused questions and never felt embarrassed for doing so. The code review feedback was occasionally blunt — in a good way. You know exactly what to fix and why.

Deep Learning Workshop · May 2025

I enrolled in the engineering program with about eighteen months of Python experience. The first two months covered things I knew — but the framing was different. I kept learning how to think about engineering problems, not just write code for them. Months four and five on deployment were genuinely new and difficult. I needed more time there than the schedule assumed, and my mentor adjusted accordingly.

Applied AI Engineering · March 2025