Licence and terms

This course is a free resource. You may read it, run it, copy it, teach from it, translate it, and build on it, commercially or not, under the two licences below. Nothing here requires registration, payment, or permission.

Summary

What	Licence	In short
Code: labs/, targets/, instructor/targets/, checks/, site/, deploy/, and every .py, .sh, .html, .js, .css, .json and .csv file	MIT	Do what you like; keep the copyright notice; no warranty.
Writing: every .md file, the module lessons, assessments, answer keys, glossary, media library, templates, and the handbook PDF	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)	Do what you like; credit the source; say if you changed it; no warranty.
Third-party material linked or embedded from the course	Its owners' terms	Not covered by either licence above.

Attribution that satisfies both licences: "Become an AI Expert, by Vetrichelvan Jeyapalpandy, used under MIT and CC BY 4.0", with a link to the source.

MIT Licence (code)

Copyright (c) 2026 Vetrichelvan Jeyapalpandy

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (writing)

The written material is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence. You are free to share and adapt it for any purpose, including commercially, as long as you give appropriate credit, link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made. The full legal text is at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode and a readable summary at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The material is provided as is, without warranties of any kind.

Terms of use

1. Educational purpose. The course teaches AI engineering. The targets exist so that you can watch an invariant fail and then fix it, on synthetic data inside your own machine.

2. Your own systems and data. Run the labs, targets and projects on systems you own or are authorised to use. Do not put customer data, credentials or anyone else's private information into a model, a prompt or a public repository as part of this course.

3. No warranty, no guarantee of outcomes. Passing a grader proves that a specific invariant holds against specific fixtures. Nothing here certifies a system, a product or a person, and nothing promises a job. The evidence is practitioner opinion and self-reported stories; survivorship bias is stated where it applies.

4. Not professional advice. The course gives no legal, financial, employment or investment advice. Pay figures and prices are dated summaries of public sources; verify before relying on them.

5. Affiliation. The course is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or speaking for any organisation, course, lab or person it cites.

6. Third-party media. Recordings and readings are linked or embedded from their owners' hosts under their terms. Nothing here grants rights in them.

7. Spending. Modules name optional paid resources and cloud compute with dated prices. Any money you spend is your decision.

8. Corrections. If a passage reads wrong or a source has moved, open an issue in the repository. The verification report says what was checked and when.