How To Solve It With Code — Overview

hi Jeremy and jonno here from Fast AI uh and we're here to tell you about this new course that we're starting it's the first fast AI course in a long time and the reason it's been so long is because we've wanted to create something that is truly AI native that is uh you know really makes sense in this new world that we're in and be honest it's taken us a long time to figure out what the hell to do but we think we've got something you're going to really like so the exciting feature of the AI filled world that Jeremy mentioned is that more and more people than ever are starting to code they're using language models to generate their first ever projects their first ever websites and this is really great we we love to see what people are doing um but there is also something that we've noticed which is that when you're able to generate these giant pieces of code that you don't necessarily understand there can be a a wall that you hit you get really excited you add more more features and then suddenly you reach point where oh gosh I I can't edit this or I don't understand where to go next and even though today's AIS are amazing and they're probably only going to get better there's still some things that they can't fix either so that's the uh that's the problem that we've been seeing and what it turns into is a lot of people thinking gee this coding thing must not even be for me right even though I've got all these amazing tools I clearly must be missing something because I still can't get it to do exactly what I want yeah but it's not your fault right exactly yeah so that's what our our courses hoping to address we think we've got a different way of building up to coding with language models um that doesn't leave you in that helpless position with a bunch of code you don't understand and so that's what we'd like to try and teach you in fact it's more than we more than we think we know we we we do know like we've actually been using this new process and new tool we're going to be teaching you about um ourselves for the last few months I've been using it for all my work and I am dramatically more effective and productive than I was so this is not just for barely new programmers um I think experienced programmers who are looking to understand how to combine their expertise with AI better we'll also appreciate this don't join the course if you've never coded before um um you should know about variables you should know about loops you should know about if statements and be able to do some basic stuff in Python um but you don't need too much more than that uh we're going to show you a new way to solve problems with code that doesn't require a computer science degree that leverages AI but as you use our approach you're going to be learning more and more about coding and this approach is one where you'll be using AI not just to build stuff but to actually become a better coder as you do it'll be all based on the classic fast AI teaching style where you'll be building stuff from day one very very Hands-On and in the process you'll be learning a lot of really powerful techniques and Foundations so the way this course is going to work it's going to take a little bit of unlearning I think if some of us have habits of generating a ton of code all at once it's very much building up these muscles of gradually iteratively line by line step by step putting together things that you want um so we're going to be doing it as a live course together I think twice a week for eight weeks we'll have lessons but they'll also be office hours and it's a live cohort which means there'll be you know hundreds of other Learners also building these muscles together and practicing and figuring out this way of approaching problems and we'll be doing this in a a custom tool that we've built to work well with this approach um yeah so I think it's going to be a an exciting group to be a part of as we try and figure out these uh these approaches together and I should also mention we're treating this as a beta course so you should join if you're prepared to be involved in something that's being a bit built around you as it happens the first time this has ever happened I will say all the folks who were involved in the very first ever fast AI course most of them I still know to this day most of them have gone on to have extremely successful careers as startup Founders and in research labs and so forth I think this will be a bit like that you know although the the old days of fast a it's something very new very fresh not quite complete um so it might require a little bit of patience and a little bit of enthusiasm to be part of the journey that we're all taking together so if this sounds like something that's for you then can't wait to see you there um and um we'll all learn how to solve it with code thanks Joo thank you

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