I recently completed a Coursera foundation course on Large Language Models — my first structured learning in a while. The gap was mostly down to becoming a parent, which makes carving out time for professional development and blogging considerably harder.
Since April 2023 I’ve been working on Muse at Unity — an LLM-driven AI assistant for Unity developers that has evolved from a web-based chat interface into a deeply integrated Editor tool capable of analysing your project and performing contextual tasks.
Working on Muse gave me a lot of practical LLM exposure, but I recognised gaps in the broader theoretical landscape. The Coursera course — designed by Andrew Ng’s team — filled those in well, covering key concepts and giving hands-on experience in prompt engineering and model fine-tuning.
I’d recommend it to anyone wanting general LLM literacy. It’s an introduction, not a deep-dive, but it gives you a solid conceptual framework to hang everything else on.