Active Cohort Junior Developer Track

Welcome back, Alex Chen!

You have completed foundations and basic app builds. You are now mastering Applied Systems.

68%
Readiness Score
Target: 70%+ for employer match
Learner Standing

Level 4 Rank: Associate FDE

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14 Days
Complete loop
3450 XP total 4000 XP to Level 5

Daily Learning Loop

5 + 10 + 5 Min
Loop resets in 9h 15m

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Workflow Discovery 3 verified
Business Case Creation 1 verified
Full-Stack App Delivery 2 verified
AI Integration & Evaluation 3 verified
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Weeks 5-6 ● In Progress

Module: Applied Systems

"RAG in production, tool use, multi-step agents, evaluation engineering, and observability"

Core Topics
  • RAG pipeline construction over private corporate documents
  • Agent frameworks: LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, DSPy
  • Multi-step reasoning and function calling
  • Agentic workflow orchestration with Hermes Agent framework
  • Eval engineering: designing evaluation suites that catch hallucinations
  • LLM-as-a-judge evaluation frameworks
  • Week 6 Milestone: agent + evaluation harness published to proof-of-skill
Deliverable Output: Production-style multi-step agent with evaluation harness
Enter Practice Sandbox

Interactive Sandbox & Tutor

Write your agent router code and verify it using performance-based evaluation tests.

src/agents/supportRouter.ts
TypeScript (Svelte 5 Runes ready)
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Ready to evaluate sandbox code
Sandbox Log Output Terminal Idle
Execute "Run Eval Suite" to compile and run sandboxed tests.
Guide Agent (Socratic Tutor)
Hermes Engine
Greetings, FDE. I am your Socratic Guide. What routing obstacle or eval issue can I help you dissect?
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Prep Agent (The Inquisitor)

60-minute Palantir-style decomposition mock interview. Test client-scoping and trade-off defense skills.

Prepare to dissect enterprise architectures, address stakeholder friction, and argue ROI constraints.

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