Master Next.js by Building Real-World AI Apps

Streaming: Improve your UX by delivering messages as they become available

The AI SDK: See how Vercel’s AI SDK can speed up your workflow

Managing AI Conversations: Understand why messages get more expensive as chats get longer

Summarization: Weigh the pros-and-cons of summarizing long conversations

Youtube API: Retrieve relevant information with Youtube’s official APIs

Transcriptions: Interact with pre-existing video transcriptions

Whisper: Process and generate your own transcriptions with OpenAI’s Whisper

Time sync: Keep your temporal data intact when converting from video to text

Context Windows: Deep dive into exactly how context windows dictate your LLM's workflow

Embedding Models: Learn how transformer models understand human text

Vector Embeddings: Generate your first embedding using OpenAI or open-sourced models

Vector Databases: Create your first vector database and understand how it works

Retrieval Augmented Generation: Supercharge your LLMs with context-rich information

Splitting & Indexing: Compactly store pdfs or markdown files with Llamaindex

Retrievers: Use context-aware retrievers to query vector databases

Retrieval Methods: Compare the difference between stuffing and more advanced methods

Postprocessing: Learn how re-ranking can improve your output quality

Timeouts: Avoid timeouts by moving expensive functions to the edge

Edge computing: Identify the clear pros and cons of computing from the edge

Database roundtrips: Understand why databases are the most costly part of edge computing

Runtimes: See in action how using the wrong runtime APIs can break your app

Tools: Create functions that your intelligent agents can leverage

Function Calling: Empower your AI agents with executable code

Agents: Generate multiple AI personas to handle different use cases

Scheduling: Allow customers to automatically book calendar appointments with AI

Advanced features: Equip your LLM with more advanced functionalities like placing orders

Prompt Injections: See how users can manipulate LLMs with malicious prompts

Prompt Sanitization: Pre-process potential inputs to check for injection attempts

Guardrails: Implement guardrails to prevent your AI from performing undesired actions

Rate Limiting: Rate-limit users who are abusing your services by sending too many requests

Embeds: Explore the different ways to deploy your working chatbot onto an existing page

Cross-Origin Optimizations: Ensure your app looks and works as expected in different environments

Cross-Origin Policies: Secure your chatbot with robust cross-origin policies

Ideation: Come up with interesting project ideas that leverage your unique strengths

Architecture: Plan the 10,000-foot view of your capstone project methodically

Setting Up: Prepare your codebase for success by applying everything we learned

Pruning: Prioritize and remove features that aren’t vital to your MVP

Building a MVP: Create a fool-proof strategy that will move your project from idea to product

Scaling & Next Steps: Explore the next steps you can take with your prized creation

Basics: Understand Typescript’s unique role and how it integrates with Next.js

Primitives and types: Familiarize yourself with key Typescript types like numbers, arrays, and records

Functions: Create more readable functions by using Typescript return types

Utility Methods: Perform advanced type inferences with built-in utility types

Generics: Define robust, reusable types using generics

NextAuth: Create your own authentication setup using NextAuth

Premade Pages: Utilize NextAuth’s preconfigured routes to have drop-in auth in your app

OAuth: Authenticate your users with social providers like Google using NextAuth

Advanced RAG: Learn more advanced and accurate methods to store and retrieve your documents

Fine-tuning: Customize LLM behaviors with a pre-configured dataset

Open Source LLMs: Explore how open models like LLaMA or Mistral can provide unique solutions

Multimodal AI: Use visuals, images, and graphics as part of your LLM generations