That weird, quiet week between Christmas and New Year’s is one of the few moments all year when you can actually think.

No meetings. No Slack storms. Just enough space to ask the real question:

“Am I actually going to ship something real with AI next year?”

I’ve seen this pattern for years now. People either:

• Learn a ton about LLMs but never ship, or

• Ship a quick demo, then get stuck because they don’t really understand why it works or how to improve it.

So this holiday, we decided to fix that gap end‑to‑end.

If you enroll in the full‑stack AI Engineering course by Jan 2, I’m gifting you our 10‑hour LLM Primer for free (worth $200!).

Two courses. One outcome: from first principles to a production‑style LLM product you can actually demo.

👉 Claim the holiday bundle here: https://academy.towardsai.net/bundles/holiday-bundle?ref=1f9b29

Here’s why this sequence matters.

The LLM Primer gives you judgment. You stop guessing. You learn when prompting is enough, when RAG actually helps, how to think about evaluation, and when agents add value versus chaos.

Then our full‑stack AI Engineering course turns that judgment into a shipped system. You design the workflow, ground it with retrieval, iterate with evals, add tools where they improve reliability, and deploy a complete LLM pipeline. Not a toy. A real, defensible build.

By early January, most resolutions fade. The ones that stick produce proof.

If you want to start 2026 as someone who doesn’t just talk about LLMs but can ship and explain them, this is the cleanest path we’ve built.

The bundle ends Jan 2 at 11:59 PM EST. After that, the Primer is no longer included.

Hope this helps you start the year with momentum, not more tabs open.

Join the Towards AI Academy today and start building! https://academy.towardsai.net/bundles/holiday-bundle?ref=1f9b29

Louis‑François