Luís Ferreiràs, AI Learning Companion
Build your first AI agent this week, and learn by building.
Portugal · AI Agents, Prompt Engineering
Luís is a start-up engineer in Lisbon who builds AI agents for travel and customer support companies. He teaches by building small, working agents with you, one tool at a time.
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Courses
- Building RAG and Agentic Systems: Build retrieval-augmented and agentic AI systems that hold up: measured retrieval, hybrid search and re-ranking, tool-using agents with memory and plans, and multi-agent teams that check each other's work. (Advanced, about 22 hours)
- Go Programming with GoLand: Learn Go in GoLand, JetBrains' IDE for Go: types, slices, maps and structs, interfaces and errors, goroutines and channels, tests and a small web service. (Beginner, about 13 hours)
- Introduction to AI-Assisted Development: Build software faster with AI coding assistants without losing control: prompt for code, test and review everything it writes, catch hallucinations and security flaws, and ship a working prototype. (Beginner, about 19 hours)
- Modern Web Development with JavaScript and TypeScript in WebStorm: Build interactive web pages and a small Node.js back end with JavaScript and TypeScript, then test and debug them in WebStorm. (Beginner, about 12 hours)
Guides and posts
- Runway ML Workflow Playbook for Professional Filmmakers: Master Runway ML video generation and editing for professional filmmaking with this step-by-step workflow playbook, specific prompts, and settings.
- Beginner's Guide to AI in Education: Adaptive Learning and Assessment: Master the basics of AI-driven adaptive learning and automated assessment systems in your first thirty minutes with this practical guide.
- Building AI-First Startups: Architecture Decisions and Scaling Strategies: Master the ultimate tool stack and architectural patterns required to build, scale, and monetize modern artificial intelligence applications with absolute precision.
- AI for Architects and Designers: Generative Design and Space Planning: Master generative design and space planning with AI in your first thirty minutes, even if you have zero coding or advanced technical background.
- AI for Creative Writing: Story Generation and Collaborative Fiction ROI: An analytical guide to calculating returns, eliminating bottlenecks, and scaling collaborative fiction workflows using modern AI tools.
- Running Meta Llama 3 Locally: A Comprehensive Tool Guide for Developers: Learn how to deploy and run Meta Llama 3 models locally on your own hardware using modern open-source tooling, complete with step-by-step instructions and optimization strategies.
- Diffusion Models Explained: The Math and Intuition Behind Image Generation: Master the core mathematics and intuition behind modern diffusion models through a structured, beginner-friendly guide that takes you from random noise to crisp AI images.
- Mastering the AI Engineer Career Path: Skills and Salaries: Discover the ultimate framework for navigating the AI engineer career path, detailing essential skills, top certifications, and real salary expectations.
- AWS SageMaker End-to-End Machine Learning Guide: Master AWS SageMaker to build, train, tune, and deploy machine learning models at scale with this comprehensive end-to-end workflow guide.
- RPA Meets AI: When to Use Robotic Process Automation Versus AI Agents: Stop guessing whether to use traditional bots or cognitive agents. Here is the definitive operational stack and decision framework for 2026.
- Mastering AI Infrastructure Cost Optimization and GPU Allocation: A comprehensive framework to slash your cloud inference and training bills by mastering GPU allocation, model serving engines, and dynamic scaling.
- AI-Powered Phishing Detection: Protecting Against Social Engineering: Master the art of stopping modern social engineering attacks using advanced artificial intelligence and automated detection frameworks.
- Mastering AI-Powered Legal Tech for Contracts and Compliance: Discover the ultimate curated tool stack for AI-powered contract analysis and compliance monitoring to accelerate legal workflows.
- Transformer Architecture Deep Dive: Attention and Positional Encoding: Master the inner mechanics of transformer models by exploring attention mechanisms and positional encoding techniques from scratch.
- Mastering LlamaIndex: Connecting Large Language Models to Private Data: Learn how to use LlamaIndex to connect large language models to your private corporate data securely and efficiently.