Intro to AI EngineeringIntro to AI Engineering
Intro to AI Engineering, taught by Arsala Khan, teaches you to build AI-powered apps with an LLM API: prompts, tokens, system messages, and streaming. Its project is Gift Genie. The app starts as a browser-only Vite app that calls the AI provider directly, and after the backend migration it runs as an Express server with a Vite frontend. Which form you have depends on where in the course you downloaded it.
These pages sit beside the lessons of the module on Scrimba's AI Engineer Path. They hold the setup detail that changes faster than recorded lessons do, such as supported Node versions and provider settings, so it stays current here.
The pages
Running Intro to AI Engineering locally is for when you've downloaded and extracted a lesson's project and want it running on your own machine. It covers what to install first, how to tell which form of Gift Genie you have, how to run the browser-only version and the safer backend version, and the errors most learners hit on the way.
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Run an AI course project locally lists every course and project that has a setup guide.