Season 6: Build Code Nexus Assist · Episode 1 of 8
Code Nexus Assist Gets a Real Brief
You play: Junior AI Developer
Included with Core programme and Certification prep
The situation
Leo has finally written a brief with numbers in it. Code Nexus Assist v1 is a creator-support assistant: it answers account, verification and payout questions for creators. The limits are explicit — answers within 3 seconds at the 95th percentile, nine in ten answers grounded in a real support document, only support staff able to call it, creator data staying in Europe, and a budget of R12,000 a month. Today's deployment meets almost none of that: it sits in a US region, everyone reaches it with one shared key, and its quota is a fraction of launch traffic.
What you'll learn
- AI-103 planning and generation: choosing services and regions against a brief, deployments and quotas, project connections, managed identity instead of shared keys, bounded retries, and turning requirements into measurable acceptance criteria.
- Choosing between LLMs, small models, multimodal models and Foundry Tools; the Standard, Global Standard, Data Zone and Provisioned deployment types; Foundry projects in CI/CD; keyless Entra authentication and managed identities; private endpoints; and quota and rate-limit handling.
Who you work with
Maya Chen
Senior AI Engineer · Your mentor
Priya Naidoo
Cloud Architect
Leo Martins
Product Manager
Scenes
- 1.A brief with numbers in it
- 2.Brief against inventory
- 3.Which Foundry service?
- 4.A client that behaves under failure
- 5.The identity that got left behind
- 6.Strategy and acceptance criteria
- 7.Planning check
What you leave with
Code Nexus Assist has a brief it can be held to. The inventory showed four visible gaps — region, credential, quota, connection — and one unmeasured line. The client authenticates as a managed identity, reaches the index through a project connection, and retries only transient failures, with a ceiling. The 403 after the resource move was a role pointing at the wrong scope, repaired with the smallest role at the smallest scope and proved with both an allowed and a denied read. The recommendation put westeu, requested quota with a fallback, and four measurable criteria in front of the board.