AIMaks · est. 2026 · for engineers, by engineers

Learn to build,
not to watch.

A six-minute intake. A twelve-week plan that re-renders weekly. One quiet AI engineer reviewing every line — and a library of courses underneath it.

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01Who this is for

The career-switcher

From PM, design, support — three years in.

The stuck mid-level

Two-year ceiling. Knows React, fears CAP.

The new senior

Promoted. Now what?

The independent

Building one app forever. Wants depth.

The returning eng.

Out two years. Coming back gracefully.

02The method · how a syllabus is composed

Three movements,
one plan.

i.

A conversation, not a quiz.

Six minutes. The model asks you to refactor a small file, walks through a system design out loud with you, then asks what bores you. Nothing is graded.

ii.

A syllabus, rendered by hand.

Each plan is composed for one learner. Twelve weeks. Mostly building. A reading every Sunday. A pause week, by default, in week six.

iii.

A reviewer, on every PR.

The same model is your reader. It returns notes the way a senior would — specific, calm, with the exact line and the gentlest possible suggestion.

03A composed syllabus · 12 weeks

A real plan from a real learner, Marco.

Marco, 28, was stuck at senior-2 at a fintech. He wanted distributed systems without the PhD-track abstraction. This is what the model composed.

  1. Wk 01
    Calibration
    reading
  2. Wk 02
    Service skeleton
    build
  3. Wk 03
    Persistence under load
    build
  4. Wk 04
    Test pyramid
    build
  5. Wk 05
    Replication & leaders
    reading
  6. Wk 06
    Pause
    rest
  7. Wk 07
    Idempotent APIs
    build
  8. Wk 08
    Failure modes
    reading
  9. Wk 09
    Observability
    build
  10. Wk 10
    Capstone i.
    build
  11. Wk 11
    Capstone ii.
    build
  12. Wk 12
    Review & next
    reading
52
lessons composed for Marco
18
reviewed PRs · 3 retired automatically
1
pause week, taken in May
04Voices · 38,204 reviews · 4.91 average
5.0
After a decade of tutorials it finally felt like someone was teaching me. The model noticed I never finish things, and quietly redesigned the path around shipping.
Priya A.
Staff eng · Stripe · Distributed systems, by hand
4.9
The reviews are uncanny — specific, kind, and have never once told me to "consider refactoring." Closer to apprenticeship than course.
Marco V.
Engineer · Linear · Building agents that ship
4.8
My favorite week was the pause week. The plan held space for life.
Jules K.
Founder · Mux-adjacent · Postgres at scale
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