Shaw Talebi - Videos

5 Mistakes AI Builders Make (and how to avoid them)

💡 Get 30 (free) AI project ideas: https://30aiprojects.com/ Although it’s easier than ever to spin up AI apps, it’s just as easy to fall into the well-known traps of AI development. Here, I review...

How I Code with Python, Cursor, and Claude Code

💡 Get 30 (free) AI project ideas: https://30aiprojects.com/ With all of today's AI coding tools, it's easy to feel behind and overwhelmed. Here, I share my simple workflow for building AI apps fro...

5 AI Agents You Can Build This Weekend (beginner to advanced)

💡 Get 30 (free) AI project ideas: https://30aiprojects.com/ AI agents combine LLMs and tools to solve real-world problems. Here, I review 5 (practical) AI agents you can build, ranging from beginn...

3 Years of AI in 32 Minutes (chatbots to agents)

💡 Get 30 (free) AI project ideas: https://30aiprojects.com/ Over the past few years, AI has evolved at an overwhelming pace. Here, I (try to) recap everything you need to know and give a sense of ...

How to Monetize Your AI Skills (outside a 9–5)

💡 Get 30 (free) AI project ideas: https://30aiprojects.com/ A side hustle mitigates the risks of having a single source of income. Here, I share 5 AI side hustles that technical professionals can ...

How to Build a Remote MCP Server (with Auth)

💡 Get 30 (free) AI project ideas: https://30aiprojects.com/ MCP lets you connect tools to your favorite AI apps. Here, I show how to create and connect a remote YouTube MCP server to ChatGPT with ...

30 AI Engineering Terms Explained (in Plain English)

💡 Get 30 (free) AI project ideas: https://30aiprojects.com/ Here I review the most common AI buzzwords used these days and explain them in simple terms. Intro - 0:00 1) Large Language Model (LLM)...

How to Code 10X Faster Using AI (without the chaos)

💡 Get 30 (free) AI project ideas: https://30aiprojects.com/ MCP is an easy way to give LLMs tools and context. Here, I walk through how to build a custom MCP server and use it to create a YouTube ...

How to Build (Custom) AI Agents with MCP

💡 Get 30 (free) AI project ideas: https://30aiprojects.com/ MCP is an easy way to give LLMs tools and context. Here, I walk through how to build a custom MCP server and use it to create a YouTube ...

What I Learned Launching an AI SaaS (in 30 days)

🚀 The SaaS: https://ghstwriter.com/ 💡 Get 30 (free) AI project ideas: https://30aiprojects.com/ I launched my 2nd AI SaaS as a solo founder. Here I share key lessons learned on coding, GTM, and sh...

How to Deploy AI Apps with Streamlit, Docker, and Hugging Face

💡 Get 30 (free) AI project ideas: https://30aiprojects.com/ Most AI projects never make it out of the laptop. Here, I share a simple way to deploy AI apps using Streamlit, Docker, and Hugging Face...

7 Skills I Had to Learn to Make $100k/yr (as a technical founder)

💡 Get 30 (free) AI project ideas: https://30aiprojects.com/ Tech skills (alone) aren't enough to build a sustainable business. Here, I share the 7 skills I needed to learn to make $10k/mo working ...

Exposing My AI SaaS Tech Stack (so you can copy me)

🚀 My 1st app: https://y2b.io/ | 2nd app: https://ghstwriter.com/ 💡 Get 30 (free) AI project ideas: https://30aiprojects.com/ While it’s never been easier to build an AI SaaS, picking from today's ...

uv: The Fastest Way to Install (and Use) Python

💡 Get 30 (free) AI project ideas: https://30aiprojects.com/ uv is a simple (and fast) way to manage your Python projects. In this video, I walk through everything you need to know to start buildin...

GitHub for AI Engineers (beginner-friendly guide)

💡 Get 30 (free) AI project ideas: https://30aiprojects.com/ Getting started with GitHub can be overwhelming. In this video, I break down the basics and walk through a simple GitHub workflow for yo...

Context Engineering Explained (5 Practical Tips)

💡 Get 30 (free) AI project ideas: https://30aiprojects.com/ The best way to get good outputs from an LLM is by giving it the right inputs. This is the goal of context engineering. In this video, I...

How to Solve Problems with AI (not just use it)

💡 Get 30 (free) AI project ideas: https://30aiprojects.com/ Most AI projects fail because they are grounded in hype rather than solving a problem. Here, I reviewed a structured 5-step framework fo...

Fine-tuning LLMs for Tool Use (w/ Example Code)

💡 Get 30 (free) AI project ideas: https://30aiprojects.com/ Here, I discuss how to fine-tune gemma-3-1b-it to use tools. I review how this works conceptually, then walk through a concrete example ...

How I Found My Ideal Customer with AI (ICP Analysis)

💡 Get 30 (free) AI project ideas: https://30aiprojects.com/ Here, I share how I used LLMs, an embedding model, and traditional ML to craft the ideal customer profile (ICP) for my AI cohorts. Examp...

How to Solve Problems with Text Embeddings and ML (Dallas AI - Summer School 2025)

💡 Get 30 (free) AI project ideas: https://30aiprojects.com/ My session on solving problems with embeddings and ML from Dallas AI's 2025 Summer School. Here, I explain text embeddings and then use ...

How to Build Your 1st MCP Server with Python (AgentCon Dallas - 2025)

💡 Get 30 (free) AI project ideas: https://30aiprojects.com/ My session on building an MCP server from AgentCon Dallas 2025. Here, I explain MCP and then build a custom YouTube MCP server with Pyth...

How to Build a Notion AI Agent (in 18 minutes)

💡 Get 30 (free) AI project ideas: https://30aiprojects.com/ Notion has become the central hub of my business activities. Here, I show how I used their official MCP server and OpenAI's Agents SDK t...

How to Improve AI Apps with (Automated) Evals

💡 Get 30 (free) AI project ideas: https://30aiprojects.com/ Although LLMs can perform arbitrary tasks, evaluating the quality of open-ended tasks is something that typically requires human evaluat...

How to Improve LLM Apps with Error Analysis

💡 Get 30 (free) AI project ideas: https://30aiprojects.com/ Building software on top of LLMs can feel more like praying to the AI gods than engineering. In this video, I discuss how error analysis...

Your LLM Prompts Suck... here's how to fix them.

💡 Get 30 (free) AI project ideas: https://30aiprojects.com/ Writing better prompts is often the best way to improve an LLM system. Here, I review 5 best practices for getting LLMs to do what you w...

My PhD Defense [Applied Physics and AI Research]

💡 Get 30 (free) AI project ideas: https://30aiprojects.com/ Here's my final PhD defense. While it's embarrassing to see myself stumble through this 😅, I hope some grad student out there finds it h...

30 AI Buzzwords Explained (in 22 Minutes)

💡 Get 30 (free) AI project ideas: https://30aiprojects.com/ It's easy to get lost in a swamp of AI buzzwords and technical jargon. In this video, I explain the most essential terms entrepreneurs n...

AI Essentials for Entrepreneurs (in 17 Minutes)

💡 Get 30 (free) AI project ideas: https://30aiprojects.com/ The overload of AI information today leaves even experienced builders lost and confused. In this video, I review the essentials you need...

ML Foundations for AI Engineers (in 34 Minutes)

30 AI Projects You Can Build This Weekend: https://the-data-entrepreneurs.kit.com/30-ai-projects Modern AI is built on ML. Although builders can go far without understanding its details, they inev...

How I (Vibe) Code with Cursor + Python

30 AI Projects You Can Build This Weekend: https://the-data-entrepreneurs.kit.com/30-ai-projects Here, I build an Upwork AI job dashboard from scratch using Python, Cursor, and Streamlit. 💻 Code:...

Model Context Protocol (MCP) Explained in 20 Minutes

30 AI Projects You Can Build This Weekend: https://the-data-entrepreneurs.kit.com/30-ai-projects This is the 5th video in a series on AI agents. Here, I discuss the model context protocol (MCP), t...

LLM in a Loop: Automate feedback with evals

30 AI Projects You Can Build This Weekend: https://the-data-entrepreneurs.kit.com/30-ai-projects This is the 4th video in a series on AI agents. Here, I discuss how to improve LLM systems with aut...

LLM Workflows: From Automation to AI Agents (with Python)

30 AI Projects You Can Build This Weekend: https://the-data-entrepreneurs.kit.com/30-ai-projects This is the 3rd video in a series on AI agents. Here, I discuss how to design agentic workflows and...

How to Improve LLMs with Tools (ft. OpenAI Agents SDK)

30 AI Projects You Can Build This Weekend: https://the-data-entrepreneurs.kit.com/30-ai-projects This is the 2nd video in a series on AI agents. I discuss how LLMs can perform actions via tools an...

An Introduction to AI Agents (for 2025)

30 AI Projects You Can Build This Weekend: https://the-data-entrepreneurs.kit.com/30-ai-projects This is the 1st video in a series on AI agents. Here, I discuss the essential features of agents an...

My First $10,000 Month (as an entrepreneur)

Free events for data entrepreneurs: https://lu.ma/tde Here, I share my journey to my first $10k as an entrepreneur, break down my revenue sources, and reflect on key lessons learned along the way....

How to Evaluate (and Improve) Your LLM Apps

30 AI Projects You Can Build This Weekend: https://the-data-entrepreneurs.kit.com/30-ai-projects Here, I discuss 3 types of evals and how to use them to improve LLM apps. 📰 Blog: https://medium.c...

5 AI Projects For People in a Hurry (w/ Python)

30 AI Projects You Can Build This Weekend: https://the-data-entrepreneurs.kit.com/30-ai-projects Here, I share 5 AI projects you can build in an hour (or less) at three levels of sophistication. F...

Fine-tuning LLMs on Human Feedback (RLHF + DPO)

30 AI Projects You Can Build This Weekend: https://the-data-entrepreneurs.kit.com/30-ai-projects Here, I discuss how to use reinforcement learning to fine-tune LLMs on human feedback (i.e. RLHF) a...

How to Train LLMs to "Think" (o1 & DeepSeek-R1)

30 AI Projects You Can Build This Weekend: https://the-data-entrepreneurs.kit.com/30-ai-projects Here, I discuss the technical details behind the recent “advanced reasoning” models trained on larg...

I Fine-tuned FLUX.1 on My Face (and how you can too)

30 AI Projects You Can Build This Weekend: https://the-data-entrepreneurs.kit.com/30-ai-projects Here, I share a simple way to fine-tune FLUX.1 using Python and Replicate's API. 📰 Read more: http...

How to Build Customer Segments with AI (Real-World Use Case)

30 AI Projects You Can Build This Weekend: https://the-data-entrepreneurs.kit.com/30-ai-projects Here, I share a real-world case study using OpenAI's API to create customer segments from unstructu...

Fine-tuning Multimodal Embeddings on Custom Text-Image Pairs

30 AI Projects You Can Build This Weekend: https://the-data-entrepreneurs.kit.com/30-ai-projects In this video, I walk through how to fine-tune CLIP on my YouTube titles and thumbnails using the S...

Fine-Tuning Text Embeddings For Domain-specific Search (w/ Python)

30 AI Projects You Can Build This Weekend: https://the-data-entrepreneurs.kit.com/30-ai-projects In this video, I walk through how to fine-tune a text embedding model for domain adaptation using t...

My AI Development Setup (From Scratch)

30 AI Projects You Can Build This Weekend: https://the-data-entrepreneurs.kit.com/30-ai-projects Here, I walk through the complete setup of my AI development environment on my new laptop (16" MacB...

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