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Most AI engineering isn't engineering yet.
There's a class of code that ships to production, and a class that lives on someone's laptop in a notebook. The line between them isn't how impressive the demo is. It's evals, observability, and the boring infrastructure that makes a system answerable to its bug reports.
Real AI Engineering is the part nobody tweets about. Prompts that fail loudly. Retrieval that you can debug. Models you can swap out. Tests that run on every commit. Logs you actually read.
This site is for engineers who want to learn to build that — and stop pretending the rest of it doesn't matter.
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“Matt is one of the best developer educators in the world.”

Hi, I'm Matt Pocock
Before creating AI Hero, I created Total TypeScript - the industry standard course for learning TS.
I was a member of the XState core team, and was a developer advocate at Vercel.
I'm building AI Hero to make the secrets of the AI Engineer available to everyone.