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T5.4

Casebook: classic AI designs

Recognise the 9 classic designs and their whiteboard scripts.

About 3 h 59 min: 1 h 44 min reading + 2 h 15 min practice · 11 lessons

Scope: Reading and recall
Prerequisites: Architecture patterns and trade-offs

Lessons

11 lessons

1
Enterprise AI Assistant: Integration Layers at Scale
9 min
2
Customer Support Assistant: Knowledge, Actions, and Approval
10 min
3
Coding Assistant: Context Engineering Under 300 ms
8 min
4
Recruiting Platform: Explainable Ranking, Human Decisions
8 min
5
Logistics Exceptions: Designing Around a Policy Gate
10 min
6
Access-Controlled Enterprise RAG
7 min
7
Access-Controlled Enterprise RAG: Retrieval and Release
9 min
8
Access-Controlled RAG on Databricks
7 min
9
Access-Controlled RAG on Databricks: Testing and Operations
9 min
10
Safe Workflow Automation for Non-Technical Users
14 min
11
Delivering an Agent in Two Weeks with Enforced Gates
13 min

Also used in this module

Lessons taught in another module that this one builds on.

Prompt Injection and Egress Control
6 min
Red Teaming and Layered Guardrails
9 min
Prompt Versioning, Rollout, and Rollback
6 min
Enterprise RAG on a Governed Lakehouse
8 min

Practise and Check

Deliverable: Summarise 3 cases from memory
Assessment: Cheat-sheet recall
Interview probe: Design an enterprise assistant
Common mistakes: Memorising instead of reasoning

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