AI Architect Circle · Interactive challenges
Trigger a failure. Follow the evidence. Change a decision and see what happens. Practice the judgment behind an AI system you can explain and defend.
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A fictional AI refund assistant
What the application knows ≠ what actually happened.
One challenge. Seven stages. Twenty-three laboratory cases.
Challenge 01 · AI agents & distributed systems
Your AI agent sends a $45 refund. The connection times out. It retries—and the customer receives $90.
Can you repair the recovery policy without blocking legitimate customer work? Inspect request keys, provider responses, the actual ledger, and the message your customer sees.
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An authored teaching simulation with a fictional provider contract. No money moves. Practice scores are not certifications or hiring assessments. Enrollment, structured decisions, validation, and results are saved privately to your account. Free-text notes stay in this browser. A saved Pass can qualify for a limited founding-access claim, subject to the campaign terms and administrator activation. Privacy details →
Challenge 02 · Seven incidents · Twenty-one practice cases
One seat. Two customers. Your AI says both are confirmed.
Trace a race for the last ticket, late payments, duplicate webhooks and unsupported AI promises. Repair the architecture, replay the same workload, and defend your decisions with event evidence.
Explore Challenge Two →Included during your existing founding pass. No second claim, card or extension.
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Bring a failure you’ve seen, an interview question, or a design decision you want to explore. Tell Rohit what surprised you in the lab.
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