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Why we rebuilt the AI Software Developer bootcamp from scratch

The pace of change in LLMs means a curriculum written 12 months ago is already wrong.

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Sipho Khumalo
Director of Curriculum · Mar 21, 2026 · 7 min read
Why we rebuilt the AI Software Developer bootcamp from scratch

We launched our AI Software Developer bootcamp in early 2024. By late 2025 it was already noticeably out of date.

We dropped a lot of theory

The 2024 version had a four-week deep dive into transformer architecture. We’ve cut it to one week.

We added a four-week eval module

“Half the AI engineers I interview can’t tell me how they’d know if their RAG system was getting worse.”

— Lead Engineer, Cape Town AI startup
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