The AI Skills Lab is an eight-week program open to students at all five Claremont Colleges, meeting Monday evenings from October 5, 2026. Bring a laptop. By the last session, you can work with these models at a high level, and you have built a tool of your own and put it on the internet where other people can use it.

The AI Skills Lab will be led by Ludovico Cordara, a CMC sophomore studying government and philosophy. He founded Krypton AI, a micro-cap consulting and investor relations platform, as a freshman. Afore Capital and angel investors from Capital Group, Anthropic, Amazon, and several hedge funds back it. He works as a vice president for five public companies with a combined market capitalization above $1 billion.

Ludo has spent the past few months teaching students around campus how to build, one at a time and usually over dinner, and started the Lab to do it at a scale that reaches everyone who wants it. Things he's built this way, most in a single evening, include:

• Free textbook scraper: because why pay hundreds of dollars for books?
• 5C dining hall scraper: texts you what is for breakfast, lunch, and dinner across all five campuses, because the 5C menu app is often a challenge.
• Google Apps Script email generator: because nobody wants to send a hundred emails by hand.
• Token usage tracker: because these companies charge you for absolutely no reason.
• Alumni scraper: pulls every Claremont alum sitting at a target firm and runs his recruiting outreach for him.

The AI Skills Lab is taught with hands-on keyboards.

• Claude Code and Codex are in everyone's terminal inside the first hour
• Everything builds from there:
  • which model to reach for
  • pulling data off the web
  • writing a model to your mail and calendar
  • agents that run without you

It is meant for students who have never written software and assume they never could. That stopped being true about two years ago, and almost nobody has been told. No company, no idea, no computer science background, no barrier to entry.

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