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AI Agents, How to Design Profitable Architectures

This is an 18-lesson course across 5 modules designed to transform Generative AI LLM agents—which often drain money through API costs—into a profitable structure by controlling expenses with model routing, cascading, caching, and loop guardrails. You will personally build everything from analyzing real-world cases of "cost bombs" to profit-and-loss simulations and architecture design projects. We recommend this course to AI developers and makers burdened by API costs, as well as those planning or operating agent-based services.

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35 learners

Level Basic

Course period Unlimited

Python
Python
Interview
Interview
Service Planning
Service Planning
AI
AI
LLM
LLM
Python
Python
Interview
Interview
Service Planning
Service Planning
AI
AI
LLM
LLM

What you will gain after the course

  • When developing AI services, you can learn the essential technical techniques needed to determine if your service can actually make money and to generate profit by increasing revenue over costs.

  • You can diagnose where your agent is spending money by applying call-level metadata logging, three-stage visibility (Call/Request/Step), and the three principles of FinOps.

  • You can directly implement various techniques such as model routing, cascading, caching, and guardrails for LLM cost optimization through hands-on practice.

  • I can design an architecture diagram and implementation plan that combines routing, caching, and guardrails into one, and prepare a cost structure diagnostic report.

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Who is this course right for?

  • AI developers and makers feeling the burden of API costs: Those who are running LLM agents and need to identify the causes and find solutions because costs are increasing uncontrollably.

  • Those who intend to operate or plan agent-based services: individuals who wish to diagnose situations where existing cost structures are no longer profitable due to changes in advertising unit prices or the revenue environment, and who want to create profit and loss simulations.

  • Practitioners who have experience using LLM APIs and basic programming knowledge, and who want to directly implement cost-reduction techniques such as model routing and caching through code.

Need to know before starting?

  • It is easy to follow the hands-on exercises if you have experience using LLM APIs (OpenAI/Anthropic, etc.) and basic programming knowledge (Python/Node, etc.).

  • It is suitable for individual makers or small teams who are currently operating or planning to operate an agent service.

  • For the practice session, you will need to issue an LLM API key, set up a cost-tracking dashboard, and install a local practice environment, all of which will be guided in lesson 1-3.

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  • chococoditat님의 프로필 이미지
    chococoditat

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    I’m running a service that uses AI APIs as a side project, and after taking this course, I applied model routing and caching with agents. It seems to have reduced my usage by around 20%, though I still need to experiment with it further. Rather than simply listing tips, the course explains why these approaches are necessary based on code, which made it easier to understand. That said, the techniques covered in the course are things I hadn’t paid attention to before taking it, but they are also the kind of information you can find if you do some research afterward. However, there aren’t many resources that properly organize everything around real-world examples in one place. So it was helpful for quickly reviewing concepts I was unfamiliar with from start to finish, understanding how to use them for monetization, and grasping their importance.

    • bluepicture081732님의 프로필 이미지
      bluepicture081732

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      Average Rating 5.0

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      It was very fresh and helpful because it covered "cost reduction," which is hard to find anywhere else! I really hope those who have struggled with the costs of currently running services, or those who found it difficult to set monitoring metrics for similar agent-based services in their companies, will definitely listen to this!!

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