LessonFolk

How AI Apps Work

By LessonFolk

Building with AI Intermediate

Understand how AI apps are built — what an API call to a model contains, how a system prompt shapes behaviour, how apps get structured output and keep conversations going, and what to plan for before sharing one. No coding required.

About 2 hours 7 lessons

Before this course

This course builds on:

Lessons

  1. How an AI API call works

    About 15 min

  2. System prompts and behaviour

    About 15 min

  3. Structured output (JSON)

    About 15 min

  4. Conversation memory and context limits

    About 15 min

  5. Handling errors, cost and latency

    About 20 min

  6. Design a small chatbot

    About 15 min

  7. Before you share an AI app

    About 15 min