AI Engineering Buildcamp Cohort 3 Graduates With 13 Hands-On AI Projects

AI Engineering Buildcamp's third cohort has concluded, and organizer Alexey Grigorev reviewed the 13 AI projects delivered by students, spanning education, research, job hunting, nutrition, software development, data analysis, and chess. The program centers on a "learn by doing" approach to AI engineering. His takeaway: the strongest projects share one pattern—they start from a specific user problem. A worthwhile reference for developers getting into AI engineering.

Confirmed

Chess Coach Agent: Imports games from Lichess, Chess.com, or PGN files, automatically identifies weak positions, and schedules a review plan.
ATS Gap Analyser: Compares a resume against a job description, finds missing keywords, offers improvement suggestions, and generates a cover letter, without storing uploaded documents; the author reports that after six iterations, evaluation recall improved from 60% to 88%.
Quizgen: Turns university lecture slides into exam questions; professors can choose the mix of theory, applied concepts, and case studies, then review and edit the output. The system uses an LLM judge to verify that each question is actually grounded in the uploaded material.
The remaining projects cover nutrition, software development, data analysis, research, and other areas, 13 in total.

Why it matters

These projects demonstrate an AI engineering methodology of starting from concrete user problems and iterating fast—the six-iteration recall gain in ATS Gap Analyser being a case in point—making them a useful reference for anyone getting started in AI engineering.

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13 AI projects from AI Engineering Buildcamp's third cohort, and lessons from them — Al_Grigor · 2026-09-11 22:00 (UTC+08:00)
13 real-world AI projects from Buildcamp Cohort 3: exam generators, RAG, job tools — Al_Grigor · 2026-09-11 22:01 (UTC+08:00)

[source] 13 AI projects from AI Engineering Buildcamp's third cohort, and lessons from them — Al_Grigor · 2026-09-11
Quizgen turns lecture slides into exam questions, with an LLM judge grounding every item — Al_Grigor · 2026-09-11
ATS Gap Analyser lifts evaluation recall from 60% to 88% after six iterations — Al_Grigor · 2026-09-11
Chess Coach Agent imports your games, finds weak positions, schedules spaced-repetition review — Al_Grigor · 2026-09-11
[source] 13 real-world AI projects from Buildcamp Cohort 3: exam generators, RAG, job tools — Al_Grigor · 2026-09-11