Capstone Project

Introduction

The capstone is your signature project: production-grade, fully evaluated, publicly documented. It's the centrepiece of your portfolio.

Beginner analogy: Like a master's thesis — depth, polish, defence.

Understanding the topic

Core concepts to understand:

• Pick a real problem you care about.
• Build: workflow + eval + monitoring + write-up.
• Open-source code + prompts.
• Blog post + demo video.
• Defend tradeoffs publicly.

Syntax reference

Visual workflow / architecture:

Capstone:
  Problem → Workflow → Evals → Monitoring → Write-up → Demo

Real-world use

Capstone projects often turn into job offers or startup ideas.

Best practices

• Pick a problem only YOU can do well.
• Polish the write-up — many will judge by it.
• Defend tradeoffs in interviews.

Hands-on exercise

Interview preparation — practice these questions:

• Q1. Walk through your capstone.
• Q2. Hardest tradeoff?
• Q3. What would you do differently?
• Q4. Next steps?