Are the lessons planned to be updated to cover newer LLM/agent frameworks?

[Alba Collaku (6rdxx)]

Hi! I'm working through the curriculum and noticed most of the labs use libraries/APIs that have moved fast since this was written (e.g. OpenAI SDK versions, LangChain). Is there a plan to refresh the notebooks to match current tooling, or is the course intentionally kept stable so it doesn't go out of sync with the video/text lessons? Would also be happy to help contribute updates to specific lessons if that's welcome.

[Mohammad Hamarsheh (hamarshehmhmd)]

From what I can tell, the core AI-For-Beginners repo (the 12-week/24-lesson one covering foundational topics like neural networks, CNNs, NLP, and GOFAI) is kept fairly stable on purpose, since a lot of that material (fundamentals, classic ML/DL concepts) doesn't go stale the way framework-specific code does. Microsoft's more fast-moving, framework-heavy content (things like Azure OpenAI/Foundry SDKs, agent frameworks) tends to live in the sibling repos instead — e.g. generative-ai-for-beginners and ai-agents-for-beginners — which get updated more frequently as those APIs change.

So it's less "abandoned" and more "intentionally scoped to fundamentals," with the fast-changing tooling split out elsewhere. That said, the maintainers do accept PRs for outdated code samples or broken dependencies, so if you find specific notebooks that are broken (not just using an older API version), opening an issue or PR for that specific lesson is likely to get picked up faster than a general "refresh everything" request.