Cohort 01
Reality check for your AI Career.
Bridge the gap between hype and production. A 6-week rigorous bootcamp to ship cost-effective, MCP-integrated AI applications.
6 WEEKS
<$150 BUDGET
MCP PROTOCOL
bash — 80x24
➤ git clone djhq-academy/reality-check
➤ cd week-01-foundations
➤ ./deploy-mvp.sh --force
> Status: PRODUCTION READY
The Anti-Hype Curriculum
We don't do "Hello World" tutorials. We build systems.
Core Philosophy
Ship Every Week.
We prioritize working systems over buzzwords. You deploy a live demo by the end of Week 1.
W1: DEPLOY
W2: ITERATE
W3: SCALE
Real Systems
Learn from Production
Agent pipelines, event-driven jobs, vector search. Patterns from systems running today.
➤ Event-driven pipelines
➤ Agent graph orchestration
➤ MCP tool integration
New Standard
Master MCP
Build the servers that connect AI to real data.
War Stories
Failures
Learn from production bugs that cost real money.