Coaching
AI & Coding Coaching
Pristone Academy offers private, one-on-one AI and coding coaching led by Edward Mabonga — an MIT EECS graduate and senior software engineer who builds production AI systems. You learn how modern AI actually works and how to write real, working code, taught from genuine practice and built entirely around your goals rather than a fixed syllabus.
Premium private coaching, typically structured as multi-session engagements.
This is premium private coaching led personally by a practicing engineer — not a recorded course or a cohort bootcamp. If the lowest-cost option is the priority, a free course will serve you better.
Who this is for
People who want to genuinely understand AI and become fluent developers — engineers adding AI to their toolkit, founders evaluating AI for products, students in AI or CS coursework, and serious self-learners who want depth and judgment, not buzzwords.
- Engineers who want real AI fluency, not just tool demos
- Founders and product people evaluating AI for real use cases
- Students in AI, ML, or CS coursework who want to truly understand it
- Self-learners who want to build and reason, not just follow tutorials
What you walk away with
- ✓A working mental model of how modern AI systems are built and behave
- ✓Hands-on fluency with prompting, evaluation, and AI-assisted workflows
- ✓Cleaner, more confident coding across the languages you work in
- ✓The judgment to tell genuine capability from hype
Who this is not for
Being upfront about fit saves everyone time — including yours. This program is not a good match if:
- Anyone looking for the cheapest possible way to 'learn AI'
- People who want a fixed, generic syllabus rather than a tailored plan
- Learners unwilling to practice between sessions
What we can cover
How modern AI works
Large language models, embeddings, retrieval, and agents — deep enough to reason about them, not just use them.
Building with AI
Prompting, evaluation, and wiring AI into real applications and workflows you care about.
Coding fundamentals
Clean code, data structures, and problem-solving in Python, Java, or whatever you build in.
Your real project
We work on what you're actually trying to ship or learn, so the skills transfer immediately.
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