Stop Evaluating Models Like It's the 50s - Alejandro Vidal, Mindmakers
AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 · 23:35
AI-powered education and agentic engineering training
Mindmakers develops AI-powered personalized learning for individuals, businesses, and vocational education. Its advertised Agentic Engineering course targets developers, tech leads, CTOs, founders, and teams learning to build and maintain software with AI agents. Learners choose their own project, work in a real terminal and repository, and receive an adaptive curriculum and AI tutoring that responds to their starting level.
Founder Alejandro Vidal developed the business from an initial prototype used in real classes in 2022; the company incorporated in 2023 and reached its first commercialization through a customer in 2024. Its engineering curriculum emphasizes verifiable goals, feedback loops, context management, evaluation, and deployment security. These topics connect agent use to the work of reviewing software, coordinating teams, and maintaining products.
The course is designed for asynchronous study in English or Spanish, with 16 practical labs and six months of access. It teaches learners to work with Claude Code, Codex, or OpenCode. The advertised €890 single payment includes course materials, labs, community access, and an AI tutor; learners also need an active coding-tool subscription. Mindmakers additionally invites whole teams to arrange training around shared processes, architecture, and knowledge transfer.
AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 · 23:35
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Vidal demonstrated how item response theory can identify flawed answers and informative questions, reducing evaluation workload while also assessing response consistency.
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