AI Engineering · 200-level
Automation & Workflows
AIE-2052 creditselectivebadge: automatorprereqs: AIE-204
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01
Multi-step automation design
- Chaining extract, transform, and act into one pipelineconcept45 min
02
Human-in-the-loop checkpoints
- Forcing manual sign-off before any mutating step firesconcept60 min
03
Timed workflow build
- Shipping a small automation brief inside a hard clockconcept90 min
04
Cross-model drift in automations
- Comparing schema-drift rate across models inside one pipelineconcept60 min
05
Designing checkpoints for mutating actions
- Where a human sign-off actually belongs in the chainconcept45 min
06
Failure recovery & retries
- Designing a pipeline that degrades safely instead of silentlyconcept45 min
07
Quiz: workflow-design judgment
- Checkpoint on where to place the next checkpointconcept30 min
08
Automation build lab
- Assembling and dry-running a full multi-step pipelineconcept90 min
09
Lab + eval-gate: ship an automated workflow
- Pipeline survives messy input with a human checkpoint intact (Automator badge)concept120 min
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