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
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 By late 2025 it was already noticeably out of date.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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